Re: US med. industry are ripp-off compared to Europen system

>Subject: Re: US med. industry are ripp-off compared to Europen system
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Riku Simonen)

>Yes, but your system where 30 tab. of 5mg Valium costs 90 USD (in
>American internet pharmacy) and here 7 euro tells that lack of price
>controls leads not to price competition but to extremely greedy
>pricing in US. All european countries have some kind of price controls

>because it leads to considerable lower prices. System is simply better
>for people. And there is principal point too: medicine are basic goods
>which should be available also for low-income system.

Because we have a society and a government that believes price controls are
evil, we will never have them.  That and the drug industry has covinced our
representatives that without a free market, the rest of world would not have
new drugs.  

Denise