Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
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Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#2Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#3Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
I think the FDA will fight to your death for your right to safe medicine.
Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#4The answer is that our insurance and medical billing system is a complete tirefire and needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with something sane.
Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#5Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
I think the FDA will fight to your death for your right to safe medicine.
I'm baffled by the snark. Could someone please attempt to reconcile the following positions for me:
1. We need regulation of drugs/medicine/etc because we do not want some snake oil peddlers peddling arsenic as medicine?
2. Regulations prevent us from getting shit cheap! Baaaaa!
Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#6Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
People do but there’s an entire industry devoted to lobbying against competition.
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#7Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
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Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the FDA will fight to your death for your right to safe medicine.
I'm baffled by the snark. Could someone please attempt to reconcile the following positions for me: 1. We need regulation of drugs/medicine/etc because we do not want some snake oil peddlers peddling arsenic as medicine? 2. Regulations prevent us from getting shit cheap! Baaaaa!
FDA is given power to do a necessary job: keep us from eating poison instead of medicine, or whatever. But the same power is abused to prevent competition by "suggestion" of the industry that provides these medicines.
It's hardly a complicated situation.
Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#9Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
Nope. It's actually against the law. There are some in congress that have been fighting for years to allow US citizens to personally import from Canada. There used to even some be surreptitious "tourism" along the border for day trips to Canada get prescriptions filled, but they put a stop to that shortly after the ACA passed.
Re: Why a Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S
#10Stupid question from an idiot from communist Canada: Can't you just import the bloody pills from somewhere that isn't the USA?
With a few exceptions its not legal to bring foreign drugs or re-import drugs (made here and sent overseas and brought back) into the USA.