We’ve received a lot of questions from the eDrugSearch.com community about the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009, the proposed legislation that would enable Americans, once and for all, to legally purchase prescription drugs from Canada.
Here some common questions about the bill, along with answers provided by the bill’s sponsors:
Q: Why is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Canadian drugs'
Questions and Answers: Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation
Understanding the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
As readers of this blog know, we have been following the proposed Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act carefully as it wends its way through Congress. So far, neither the House nor Senate versions of the bill have gotten very far since their introduction in early March, although there has been some talk [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation · Healthcare solutions · Prescription drugs
New report: “Prospects for Legalizing Drug Reimportation to the United States”
June 19th, 2009 · No Comments
A new U.K. report, “Prospects for Legalizing Drug (Re-)Importation to the United States”, has been released on the topic of U.S. citizens buying drugs from Canada and other Tier One countries, such as the U.K., Australia and Japan. The report promises insight and analysis on these key questions:
Will the drug reimportation bill pass?
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Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation
Will Congress ever put Canadian drugs to a vote?
June 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We reported last week that some clever maneuvering by Sen. Byron Dorgan and Sen. John McCain had put drug reimportation from Canada back on the Congressional front burner, by attempting to attach it to a bill placing tobacco products under FDA oversight.
Unfortunately, the Dorgan/McCain bid was thwarted and the tobacco bill passed without [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation
Some common-sense wisdom on Canadian pharmacies
June 11th, 2009 · No Comments
The other day, I came across a wonderful op-ed piece in the Mountain Mail newspaper of Socorro, New Mexico, by a man named Rick Coddington. The article is titled, “Paid-Off Politicians Set To Stick It To Us Again.”
Here are some salient excerpts:
If you caught last week’s column, you know I was traumatized by watching [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation
Legislative maneuver puts right to purchase Canadian drugs back on the front burner
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In March, bills to finally legalize the purchase of Canadian drugs by U.S. citizens were introduced in both houses of Congress. With a solidly Democratic Congress, the bills seemed to be a legislative slam dunk.
But with politicians kicking around big-picture healthcare issues, smaller pieces of legislation like this one (as well as the similarly [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation
Healthcare, prescription drugs, and the plight of the self-employed
April 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I recently came across a remarkable blog rant by a man named Jim Thornton, a competitive swimmer at age 56. Under a list of his latest swimming times, he shared the story of some of the struggles he’d recently been having with healthcare and prescription drug costs.
An excerpt:
Our health insurance went up [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Drug reimportation · Pharmaceutical marketing · Prescription drugs
Investment analyst: Obama’s reforms will barely make a dent in Big Pharma’s profits
April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We’ve heard endless whining by Big Pharma and its water carriers in Congress about how President Obama’s plans to reduce prescription drug costs will all but destroy the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
An investment analyst who covers the industry thinks otherwise.
Jason Napodano, in a report for Zacks Investment Research published earlier this month, writes:
When President Obama’s administration [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation · Healthcare solutions
Bill Clinton’s prescriptions for high drug costs
March 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently sat in for Larry King and had former president Bill Clinton as his guest. Clinton had some interesting things to say about the problem of high drug costs — driving home the point that our current system of corporate welfare for Big Pharma just isn’t working.
Here are some excerpts of [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Drug reimportation · Prescription drugs
Why brand-name drugs are always cheaper in Canada, but generic drugs aren’t
March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We are sometimes asked why we include a number of U.S.-based pharmacies in the eDrugSearch.com pharmacy directory, since prescription drugs are so much cheaper at Canadian pharmacies. One of the main reasons is that U.S. pharmacies often sell generic drugs at lower prices than their Canadian counterparts.
A new study by the Fraser Institute, “Canada’s [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Generic drugs · Prescription drugs


