General Motors can move its factories to Mexico to make Chevy Suburbans and claim it is a free market.
Mattel can outsource its toy manufacture to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it is a free market.
Any "U.S." company can incorporate outside the U.S. to avoid taxes and claim it is a free market.
The Hewlett-Packard printers we buy are made in Mexico.
The Lands' End shirts we buy shirts often are made in Bangladesh or Pakistan, or?
Many of the tools, appliances, clothes, trinkets, car parts, you name it are made in China,
In fact, much of what we purchase today came from a foreign country, but heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy. Those drugs may not be safe because they are coming from a "foreign country" and those elderly buying them are un-American."
And you think the pharmaceutical companies do not have a powerful lobby? Think again!
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Anything can be made in Puerto Rico and be labled "Made in the USA."
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be nice if the pharmaceutical companies were in it to help people? It's all about the money. I cringe whenever I see prime-time advertising for new drugs, sometimes for real medical conditions, and some for "diseases" or "disorders" that I think they just plain made up. Who's paying for those ads? We are, in the form of outrageously high prices.
ReplyDeleteCase in point: luckily, I have a good prescription plan with small co-pays, but the retail price shown on my 90 day scripts are Detrol LA, $476.99 and Nexium, $593.99. Can't wait to see the price on my Tricor, Avapro and Celebrex. (Yeah, I take geezer meds!)
Many of the Canadian meds are made here and cheaper there?
ReplyDelete"Wouldn't it be nice if the pharmaceutical companies were in it to help people? It's all about the money. I cringe whenever I see prime-time advertising for new drugs, sometimes for real medical conditions, and some for "diseases" or "disorders" that I think they just plain made up. Who's paying for those ads? We are, in the form of outrageously high prices."
ReplyDeleteRight on 8:37. But by all means, keep protesting reform everyone. Keep throwing money at these companies, afterall it's the free-market baby!
Oh, great idea, 12:23 PM. I'll just stop taking the meds and try to live with arthritis, overactive bladder, severe acid refux (to the point I can't swallow easily), high cholesterol in spite of a low fat, low carb diet, high blood pressure (even though I'm of normal weight), clinical depression and chronic pain. Yeah, I'll stop "throwing money" at the pharmaceutical companies and live a short, miserable life.
ReplyDelete