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Originally Posted by billethkid
many of the medications sold by Canadian and other foreign pharmacies get the SAME meds from the SAME manufacturers and most of them are made by the foreign manufacturers!!!
My wife's cancer medicine here costs $300 for 90 days with insurance. Over $600 when it hits the donut hole. Purchased from a foreign pharmacy shipped to the front door via Switzerland....same meds....in exactly the same packaging...manufactured in an approved facility in India.....$119 for 90 day supply....cash out of pocket with no insurance.
The thread is appropriately named.....pharmaceutical rip off, condoned by past administrations and supported by the current administration, gotta keep the specialist interest and lobbyists donations coming in....screw we the people in the process..BUSINESS AS USUAL in Washington.
btk
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Counterfeit medications are rampart. Hardly a week goes by that more counterfeits aren't discovered. We have severely reduced the FDA budget but we get angry when they don't catch counterfeit meds. It is disingenuous to blame the Federal government for the price of drugs. There are many Canadian and Indian and Chinese drugs that are just as effective as those made in the US, but there are many more that are completely ineffective if not harmful. Without FDA oversight, how are we to tell. In the 60's the same argument was made for Thalidomide. I am happy for you that you are able to purchase the meds needed at a substantial discount, but please be aware that others are also purchasing meds from foreign manufacturers that do not contain a single gram of active medication. The entire supply chain has been put in question because of drugs that are available without FDA approval.