ct: Re: Canadian Prescription Drug Question
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Intesting study a while ago that looked at Canadian Internet
pharmacies and compared them to US pharmacies. On the average the
Canadian places came out considerably more safe than the US places.
larry
On Thu, 29 J
Intesting study a while ago that looked at Canadian Internet
pharmacies and compared them to US pharmacies. On the average the
Canadian places came out considerably more safe than the US places.
larry
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:27:39 -0500, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually the drug co
I've noticed that in many cases, my (US) insurance company has the
same prices as if I were to get them from Canada. Which suggests that
the lower price is the "real" value of the drugs and people who don't
benefit from a government or insurance company plan are getting
screwed. And of course, thos
Actually the drug companies are selling to Canada at steep discounts, otherwise
the Canadian Pharmacies will not buy them. Canada tells the Drug companies what
they will pay for the drugs, and that is not necessarily a subsidy.
They sell the same drugs in the US at greatly inflated prices, and th
My understanding, and I could be way off on this, is that the Canadian
government caps the price of certain prescription drugs.
--Ben
Nick McClure wrote:
> OK, so if I understand this correctly, Drug companies in the US sell drugs
> to Canada at their normal rates, then Canada subsidizes the dr
From what I understand there is not so much of a subsidy as there is
the Canadian government using its buying power to set prices for drugs
in Canada.
larry
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:38:12 -0400, Nick McClure
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, so if I understand this correctly, Drug companies in the U
I think the thing you've overlooked is that the drug companies
themselves sell the drugs to Canada for considerably cheaper than they
do to US customers. So IIRC, Canada is just passing along that savings
rather than getting caught short in subsidising.
-Kevin
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:38:12 -0400,
From what I understand there is not so much of a subsidy as there is
the Canadian government using its buying power to set prices for drugs
in Canada.
larry
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:38:12 -0400, Nick McClure
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, so if I understand this correctly, Drug companies in the U
OK, so if I understand this correctly, Drug companies in the US sell drugs
to Canada at their normal rates, then Canada subsidizes the drugs, brings
the cost down, and the then US Pharmacies buy the drugs back.
Am I understanding this correctly? Is that what some people are proposing we
do?
If th
