With the flu vaccine fiasco and the Canadian drug imports, it is

[KlatooBNikto]

going to be only a matter of time before all American drug companies move their entire operations overseas and the drug import question will no longer be, what else, "operative".I can see that the insurance companies will push for it as the only way to keep our medical costs from skyrocketing.So brace yourselves for drug imports from India, China and wherever else the drug companies decide to pitch their tents.Not only are they going to force our hands on this issue, the outsourcing of well paid jobs in the drug industry is just over the horizon.

No matter where we look, Bush's reign of error is screwing us over royally.

[clonebot]

1. alot of it isn't made in the united states anyways...

and i'm reffering to u.s. based pharma companies' manufacturing operations. i believe (correct me anyone if i'm wrong) that quite a few already manufacture their medicine in parts of south east asia and europe.

[KlatooBNikto]

2. You may be right.But, I am also talking about the drug reserach jobs

that need highly trained scientists and clinicians.These jobs are the mainstay of the economies of New Jersey and Indiana, two states which are the powerhouses in pharmaceutical research.If those jobs go to India as predicted by no less an authority than the Scientific American, we are going to be hit hard in the high end of our jobs.I don't think it is farfetched to think that even the medical professions may well become the target of insurance companies in their drive to reduce costs.Already HMOs are setting the physician's fees for procedures;I think they will make our physicians compete against physicians in India who charge 100 times less.I don't know how this will come about but where there is money involved, they will find a way.

[baldguy]

3. It's all the fault of evil TRIAL LAWYERS!

That means we need another tax cut!

For more political nonsequiters and general hypocrisy visit http://www.whitehouse.gov !

[spinbaby]

4. No, no, no...

It's because we don't let free enterprise work so the drug companies can make bigger profits. ;)

[Bridget Burke]

5. Many of our drugs are already manufactured overseas.

American pharmacology companies are big employers in the Republic of Ireland, for example.