U.S.: Drug Imports Can't Be Safe and Cheap

[tuvor]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) dangled his support for legalizing prescription drug imports before voters during this year's campaign, but his administration declared Tuesday it's too costly to do safely.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&e=14&u=/ap/drug_imports

Is someone keeping track of the lies and broken promises for bush's second term?

[ogradda]

1. i can't count that high.

seriously, the way i know he's lying is that his lips are moving.

[Robbien]

2. The FDA has a rotten safety record, foreign drugs couldn't be any worse

Idiots

[Barkley]

13. I agree: if the foreign drugs were unsafe people would stop buying them.

But instead:

"Drug imports represent less than 1 percent of U.S. drug spending, but
the number is five times greater than it was in 2001."

the word would spread pretty fast.

[NYC Liberal]

3. I have another one:

"Wisdom and strength are not opposing values."

[roguevalley]

4. crap. I'll have to buy my vioxx here, not in Canada.

:eyes:

[Just Me]

5. YUP!!! NOT AS LONG AS CEOs ARE FREE TO PROFIT W/O PRINCIPLE!!!

No principles, no ethics, no laws!!!!

Talk about freakin' enabling abusers!!!

Damnit!!!

[Robbien]

6. Better not tell that to Wal-Mart. Is Bush saying their goods can't

be safe?

[Merrick]

7. What does it matter when you can get them all through the net as it is

Prescription or no prescription. Customs doesnt have the ability to check more than one every 10 or so incoming packages as it is.

[Just Me]

9. Are ya' talking 'bout the corporate net?

*wink*

[Bozita]

8. Rated it a '5' -- Sending article to all my senior friends

The FDA should be so diligent.

[Massacure]

10. I smell Bushit!

It really reeks this time too!

[Skittles]

11. what a joke he is

a sad, sick joke

[Barkley]

12. Americans are buying prescription drugs in Mexico too.

I was in Tijuana earlier this year and the number of Pharmaceutical stores in the tourist areas has proliferated in the last 3 years.

These stores are very up-scale looking and sell mostly medicines.

"Ten million illegal shipments of prescription drugs worth $1.4 billion entered the United States in 2003, about half of them from Canada, the report said."

Did they say "illegal"!?!?!?!

The border patrol folks must know that Americans are going to Mexico and buying drugs and illegally trying to bring them into America.

But I doubt that they enforce this law.