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To: greenspirit who wrote (13034)	10/19/2003 3:35:55 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

the point is that the US is a free market system and I want to open the market Michael, that is all I am saying. I don't care about the "funding R&D" argument, because I am in the business of R&D and I know that nobody in government is out there protecting me from foreign competition. I have to compete against it, sometimes at a dear cost to the US workforce who depends on R&D here. I can buy software from Germany (SAP) and cars from Japan so why not drugs from Canada. You want to put the drugs through a safety inspection, be my guest, it might add 2% to the cost but I'd still be ahead 68%. If drug companies can't compete without price gauging, as they are doing now, they should fold imho.