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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (28168)	10/9/2004 1:27:54 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 173976

I do not believe that the task of the federal government is to function as the National Nanny. Simply require that persons purchasing drugs from Canada be informed that the drugs may not be approved by the FDA. These are per se adults we are dealing with here, give them the freedom to make up their own minds. We need to get the federal government agencies out of peoples' lives to the extent we can. More government is not the solution, it is the problem. Let free enterprise work.

To: MJ who wrote (28168)	10/9/2004 1:49:58 PM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

"I'm worried that the prescription will say it's from Canada when it's actually from the Third World." It is not a valid statement. It is just another red herring to mask their real intent, paying off Big Pharma for their massive campaign contributions to Republicans. Canadian pharmacies have as good or better controls as their American counterparts. Why are we even talking about importing American drugs from Canada? Because the Canadian health service demands and gets LARGE discounts from outrageous American prices. The even more egregious Bush policy is to LEGALLY PROHIBIT Medicare from making the same demands for lower prices as Canada. Even by Republican standards of caving in to every business lobby, this is a new low. This policy is going to come back to haunt Bush on Nov 3. Seniors vote in large numbers and these callous policies, combined with a huge increase in medicare premiums, are going to be loudly answered then. Don't you have any elderly relatives or friends struggling with huge pharmaceutical costs? If you did, you might not be so quick to accept this bs from Bush.