Importation
of prescription drugs from Canada rises despite FDA's best
efforts to protect Big Pharma's profits in the U.S.
The FDA is losing its battle waged against the pocketbooks
of American consumers: people are importing more prescription
drugs than ever, and they're getting them from Canada, Mexico
and even the U.K. This concerns the FDA, of course, which
has gone all out to protect the profits of Big Pharma by
attempting to monopolize the U.S. drug market in much the
way that the Chicago mob from a hundred years ago tried to
control the flow of alcohol.
The FDA's financial war against the American people isn't
winning any friends at the states, either, where state budgets
for health care demand that states seek cheaper sources of
prescription drugs wherever possible. State Governors, in
particular, are fed up with the FDA's corruption and they're
speaking out against the agency's monopolistic, strongarm
tactics by going public with their own information. Governor
Jim Doyle of Wisconson puts a link to Canadian pharmacies
right on his web site, much to the anger of the FDA, and
outright tells people that the FDA's drug racket is a sham.
The Governor of Minnesota has long fought the FDA as well.
In fact, there are a growing number of Governors and city
officials who are now accusing the FDA of conspiracy and
violating federal law in order to protect the profits of
U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
The FDA is doing everything that a good mob boss should
be doing: they're strongarming search engines to prevent
online pharmacies from advertising, they're spreading fear
and disinformation by claiming that drugs from Canada are
somehow more dangerous than drugs from the U.S. (they're
exactly the same drugs, with the same side effects), and
even going so far as to search vehicles for drugs -- LEGAL
drugs -- that return to the U.S. from Canada. Maybe they'll
soon train drug-sniffing dogs to locate Viagra and Prozac,
too.
Yet despite the best efforts of the FDA, drug imports continue
to rise. That's because the American people are not fools:
if the same drugs are cheaper across the border, they're
going to look across the border. If a state can save a hundred
million dollars a year by importing drugs for state employees
rather than buying them at the ridiculous sky-high markups
found in the U.S., a state is going to look very seriously
at importing. The fact is, the FDA's drug racket is starting
to buckle at the seams. They've tried using fear, intimidation
and censorship to control the U.S. drug market, and it's
not working: people are finding out the truth about prescription
drug profits and pharmaceutical profits, and they're fed
up with it.
Only a fool would pay U.S. prices for prescription drugs,
and only a criminal agency like the FDA would try to make
it illegal for individuals, cities and states to use the
free market to seek better prices on the prescription drugs
they believe they need.
The actions of the FDA in this regard are so blatant that
I can't believe the nation isn't calling for a criminal investigation
of the agency right now. It's time to reform the FDA and
fire the politicians there who knowingly compromise public
health in order to protect drug industry profits. It's time
to put in a Department of Internal Affairs at the FDA that
investigates and prosecutes precisely this sort of corruption.
Because what we have right now at the FDA is an agency that
operates a whole lot like the Russian maffia. Free market
be damned: the FDA's here to protect you! |
