Bush Lies, People Die
I have written before about the high cost of prescription drugs and President Bush’s Medicare prescription drug benefit which is really a benefit to the drug companies because it specifically prohibits Medicare from negotiating lower prices for prescription drugs.
Misleader reports today on the Bush administration’s efforts to prevent reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada.
President Bush continues to oppose allowing American seniors to purchase lower-priced, FDA-approved medicines from Canada.(1) His administration has claimed those prescription drugs would be unsafe, and is working to block a vote on bipartisan Senate legislation to make reimportation legal.(2) But as a new drug industry whistleblower notes, the scare tactics are dishonest and untrue.
Dr. Peter Rost, vice-president of marketing for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, recently came out and debunked the White House’s argument, saying reimportation “has been proven to be safe in Europe” and that “The safety issue is a made-up story.”(3) Rost’s comments are consistent with the Bush administration’s own FDA officials who have been unable to provide any evidence that medicines from Canada are unsafe.(4)
Read the entire article for their references.
While Bush talks about his great drug benefit for seniors, the fact is that many of them often have to choose between eating, paying rent, or buying their prescription drugs. One reason is that the anti-free market policies of the current administration keep the cost of drugs artificially inflated.
While I approve in general of Bush’s idea to allow people to create tax-deductible medical savings accounts, those savings accounts, if they ever come into being, will quickly be swept into the pockets of the drug companies as long as Bush stands in opposition to free trade in the pharmaceutical marketplace.
Bush’s lies got us into Iraq and he continues to lie about conditions there. He is also lying about prescription drugs. In both cases, his lies are costing human life.
If you’re going to kill people, at least be honest about it.
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