Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: George Conklin (nilknoc_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:53:03 GMT

"Lictor" <ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote in message
news:41309b16$0$18253$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-05.noos.net...
> "Steve Harris sbharris@ROMAN9.netcom.com" <sbharris@ix.netcom.com> wrote
in
> message news:79cf0a8.0408271437.492111bc@posting.google.com...
> > I've got some shocking news for you, you poor dear innocent things.
> > The decision of what particular drug you take for your illness is in
> > many cases a lot like the decision of what kind of food to eat, or car
> > to drive.
>
> I don't drive a car, as I can afford not to, thanks to a good public
> transport policy.

    In the USA, cars and public transit use about the same amount of fuel
per passenger mile.

> The problem is that I can make my own decision. I don't need to be treated
> by a kid by some ads that think they can try to bully me into buying their
> drugs. The problem is that, if I lived in the USA, I would *pay* for these
> ads with buying that drug.

   Drug ads are not the main issue...merely a side annoyance. But we do
have the highest prices for drugs in the world. With or without ads, that
is still true.

And if I compared how much you pay for your drug
> and how much I do pay for the very same drug, I would say these ads are
> worth around 90% of the price of the drug.

    You just made that figure up. Drug companies charge what they can, not
what something costs.

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