Are the drug companies trying to shaft you? (1 Viewer)

[jamesrage]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new...N24311721_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-PATENTS-FTC-DC.XML
Drug pacts keep some generics off market - FTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brand-name drug makers are striking more deals with generic rivals to restrict the introduction of cheaper generic drugs, antitrust authorities said on Monday.


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[ALiberalModerate]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-04-24T224431Z_01_N24311721_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-PATENTS-FTC-DC.XML
Drug pacts keep some generics off market - FTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brand-name drug makers are striking more deals with generic rivals to restrict the introduction of cheaper generic drugs, antitrust authorities said on Monday.


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They have been pulling this crap for years, and much of the time its for drugs were developed on the taxpayers dime.

 

[Kelzie]

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[tryreading]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new...N24311721_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-PATENTS-FTC-DC.XML
Drug pacts keep some generics off market - FTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brand-name drug makers are striking more deals with generic rivals to restrict the introduction of cheaper generic drugs, antitrust authorities said on Monday.


What do you think?

It seems that anti-trust is allowed in this country regarding pharmaceutical companies. And even though free trade is promoted, buying drugs from other countries is illegal for American consumers. Doesn't make sense.

Many of the practices of the drug companies are despicable. Some of them test their drugs in third world countries on unsuspecting patients, even on children without informing their parents. They get away with very questionable actions.


In Africa the documentary showed how one of the world’s biggest drug companies experimented on children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Yet it turned out that Pfizer were doing human testing or experiments without the voluntary consent of patients, a violation of basic human rights...

The documentary moved on to talk about a situation in part of the wealthy world, Toronto, Canada, where even where trials were voluntary, doctors may have been pressured not to reveal concerns to their patients...
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Corporations/Medical.asp


The drug companies have to make a profit to exist, but the market needs competition to lower prices, so the anti-trust should be pursued agressively. As far as the unethical practices, countries like Nigeria let these companies get away with what they do in exchange for money. I guess we can't police that.

 

[jamesrage]

It seems that anti-trust is allowed in this country regarding pharmaceutical companies. And even though free trade is promoted, buying drugs from other countries is illegal for American consumers. Doesn't make sense.

I wonder what pinhead judge/s allowed this **** to go on.

Many of the practices of the drug companies are despicable. Some of them test their drugs in third world countries on unsuspecting patients, even on children without informing their parents. They get away with very questionable actions

. Thats proably how they know about all the potential harmful side effects that you hear about in the drug commericials that their drugs have.

 

[Sir_Alec]

Yes the drug companies are trying to shaft me, and in this one case I don't like it.

Many of the practices of the drug companies are despicable. Some of them test their drugs in third world countries on unsuspecting patients, even on children without informing their parents. They get away with very questionable actions.


In Africa the documentary showed how one of the world’s biggest drug companies experimented on children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Yet it turned out that Pfizer were doing human testing or experiments without the voluntary consent of patients, a violation of basic human rights...

The documentary moved on to talk about a situation in part of the wealthy world, Toronto, Canada, where even where trials were voluntary, doctors may have been pressured not to reveal concerns to their patients...
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Corporations/Medical.asp


The drug companies have to make a profit to exist, but the market needs competition to lower prices, so the anti-trust should be pursued agressively. As far as the unethical practices, countries like Nigeria let these companies get away with what they do in exchange for money. I guess we can't police that.

This is a lot like that movie the The Constant Gardener. It's sick that we say how moraly superior we are, and we still allow this **** to happen.