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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary View Post
    The "explanation" I have seen most often from the pharmas is... you cannot know for sure the quality of drugs if you buy them outside the US.
    So they say that to scare people into submission and I guess it works??? I wonder how they explain away the same packaging, same manufacturer, etc. Do they make sub-standard drugs to sell outside the U.S.? I wonder how they answer that one???
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    Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
    Do they make sub-standard drugs to sell outside the U.S.? I wonder how they answer that one???
    That is what I always wonder...

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    What a crock of crap.

    The meds are almost the same, the only difference is the packaging and the way they are milled.

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    I can say this because I was "there".

    Back in the early 80's, when Quaaludes were the 'thing', Rorer made them and when the government saw a problem with people going to a doc, getting a script and selling them for 2,3,5 bucks a piece, they closed that street down.

    People gravitated towards the Mexican Quaaludes - basically the same manufacturer, just the quality- pill milling, the packaging and the printing on the label suffered.

    It was like going to a outlet store and buying a Craftsman air compressor at a 60% discount because of a giant scratch on the tank. IT DOES THE SAME EFFING JOB, It's just not pretty to look at.

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    If Canuckians were dying from pills and other meds, doncha think they would call us and let us know?

    The problem rests in the LAWS AND THE WAY PEOPLE ACT after they go in for a treatment, take a med or have surgery. People go in for liposuction and the doc punctures a vein, artery or organ with the wand, you get infected and have to have that growth/scar tissue on your belly excised.

    Then you have to sue because you were stupid enough to have the surgery!

    Our problem is that we want our products totally eff proof and some on to blame when they go wrong.


    Watch a Mexican commercial about foot fungus, the kind that makes your toenails grow arms and legs. Then you see the "AFTER" picture and you think- Shiat! that must work!

    Please, You would drink a potion of mushrooms, coffee grinds and turnip skin if it cured you.

    The Canucks and Mexicans don't give a flying handshake about the packaging, spelling or the way their prescriptions work.

    They want relief.

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    Some of us pray for an IMPROVEMENT for our maladies.

    Others want Dr House, Ben Kasey, Johnny Gauge or Roy DeSoto to show up and fix our sorry arses up.

    Get real, Get Life.
    You are born to die.

    The doc is just there to extend your painful existence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
    Get real, Get Life.
    You are born to die.

    The doc is just there to extend your painful existence.
    Poor Richard, you sound 'down'.

    There is another answer you know, and you are guaranteed a full 20 minutes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o036...0743E8&index=7

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    Quote Originally Posted by rosethecopycat View Post
    Poor Richard, you sound 'down'.

    There is another answer you know, and you are guaranteed a full 20 minutes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o036...0743E8&index=7
    Oh lolololololol.

    The full 20!

    But, I'll stick around for the "furniture", god knows you can arrange it any way you want it around the room..

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    Oh no, It's just that I see these dopes that want to 'reform' the HCS and they have not the first idea as to how to do it.

    90 quadzillion dollars to put your x ray on the WWW!


    Go right to the source and put a cap on jury awards, malpractice, implant 'malfunctions' and medicines and they are halfway there...



    20 minutes, huh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
    Go right to the source and put a cap on jury awards, malpractice, implant 'malfunctions' and medicines and they are halfway there...
    These may be parts of the solution but I fail to see how it will do ANYTHING to make medical care available to the uninsured. <<head shake>>

    Protect the insurance companies and medical devise makers and big pharma...as for the uninsured...Oh well!

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