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Originally Posted by mce
Why not just import the pharma from India?
Have you seen indian pharma prices? Amazing
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The FDA has been inspecting pharma plants in India and certifying them to export to the USA for a few years. I take Plavix and Lipitor and these have come off patent these are now;
Cloproidogrel Apotex (Canada) and Atorvastin Greenstone (NJ, USA)
Also Lisinopril Lupin (Mumbai, India) Generic
Carvedilol Zydus (Pennington, NJ) Generic
Both Blood Pressure medications (alpha and beta blockers respectively) and about the same cost for both?
2 other prescriptions ...
I paid $1,400 for meds 3 years ago now it costs $600 a year. Unfortunately, medical insurance (Obamacare) has gone up quite a bit. Healthcare costs should be an equal burden for everyone age 0 - 65 and free after 65. We all (most) get old and most of us sick or injured at some point in life. Many times more than one time or from one illness. Maybe, the burden is $2,000 a year per person -- everyone. Everyone gets the same basic care. My life is not worth more than someone else's life is worth to them -- that is just ludicrous.
Some pharmaceuticals that are patent are produced in India specifically NOT to be imported into the USA as that would be patent infringement. Who should pay for research : Private industry with their reward being a patent for 20 years, or; should drug research be paid for by the USA taxpayer and the new drug's export prohibited for 20 years so the people that paid for it get the ROI? The rest of the world can eat shit and die or have to pay a hefty price that many people can't afford in many places?
Either way, new drugs will cost a lot of money to develop -- advance degreed doctors and pharmacologists and medical technicians don't work for burger flipper wages
You cannot have it both ways.