Re: OT : so this is what our troops are dying for in Afghanistan !



John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:51:08 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

So a drug company may well
charge a lot for a drug in a developed country and sell it a lot
cheaper in a poor country (or, in the case of Canada, make a bulk deal
with a volume buyer.) That is the best deal for everyone, isn't it?

Not when the country next door is paying a fraction of what you pay. You Americans
are being taken to the proverbial cleaners.

We are paying to develop drugs

You think that only American drug companies develop drugs ?


that benefit the whole world, including
poor people who can't afford to pay much. That sounds awfully nice to
me.

It sounds remarkably misinformed to me actually.


But you can't allow the cheap drugs to be re-imported to the country
of origin, or the whole thing collapses.

I'm surprised that I have to explain stuff like this.

You are ???

" re-imported to the country of origin " ??? What kind of nonsense is this ? It's
actually cheaper to send something abroad and bring it back ? This is the economics
of the madhouse !

I'm surprised people don't understand simple stuff like this.

It's daft. Another word for it is protectionism.


It's nothing short of Government sanctioned fraud IMHO. Whatever happened to free
trade ?

Wanna discuss the way gray-market electronics is handled in Europe?

Please do.

Graham

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