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To: bentway who wrote (509092)12/14/2003 2:13:22 AM
From: AK2004  Respond to of 769667
 
re: It NEGOTIATES with manufacturers for the lowest prices - manufacturers that don't make money on the drugs don't sell them there, and Canada goes elsewhere for a drug in the same class.

yeh, right. R&D is not included in manufacturing cost. US company would loose money for not selling above manufacturing cost but US is stack with R&D that is passed to US buyers. Most of the cost is associated with R&D.

re: US drug manufacturers gouge Americans

and I just explained why.

BTW by your reasoning I would think that most of your drugs are coming from Colambia