Pfizer: Let’s Only Screw Americans
Big Pharma plans to stop allowing Canadian pharmacies to buy their supplies of prescription drugs through wholesalers (starting with Pfizer); instead, they’ll have to buy directly, presumably causing huge cost increases. Now, the thing that I don’t get is this: Canada (as well as most countries) has been buying through bulk purchasing for years. It seems like Pfizer’s only *now* going after the pharmacies because they’re now serving Americans (and cutting into Pfizer’s profit margins from Americans who pay waaaay too much for drugs). If Pfizer wasn’t happy about Canada buying in bulk, wouldn’t they have gone after them when they started their medicare program in 1965? So what, Pfizer, you’ll allow Canadians to get their drugs cheaply, but not Americans? Call me crazy, but I think Ann Coulter would call that anti-American, unpatriotic, and treasonous.
Yeah, well. Ann Coulter would say a great many things are “anti-American, unpatriotic, and treasonous”.
I do agree with you about the oddity of only caring if Americans are paying the proper price though.
Drug companies are about profit – not healthcare. The US government has to step in to control big Pharma. Not sure about the chances of that with G.W.Bush in power. With drug companies having monopolies, drugs need price controls. I expect some ultra expensive drugs coming out in the next five years will underline this need.
AMERICANS ARE ALL A BUNCH OF DICKS. AND I WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM. USA BITE ME. BUSH SCREW YOU.
Pharmaceutical Rant #766
I don’t think I can say it any better, so I’ll just give you a link to Pfizer: Let’s Only Screw Americans – Gross Anatomy