The FDA, pharmacists and Bush administration conspire to price gouge American consumers with overpriced prescription drugs

It's all part of the medical racket that keeps prices high for U.S. consumers. It's Big Medicine in action, making sure that they maintain monopoly control over all U.S. pharmaceutical purchases so that they can price gouge consumers with 10,000% markups (not a typo). U.S. consumers pay the highest prices for prescription drugs on the planet, and the FDA, pharmacists and drug company executives want to make sure it stays that way. To accomplish this, they have to wage a campaign of deceit, making sure they block all drug imports from Canada. It is nothing less than a federally-approved conspiracy against the American people.

The whole thing is nothing but a sham. As the Governor of Minnesota recently asked, if prescription drugs from Canada are so darn dangerous, where are all the dead Canadians?

• The Bush administration and Maryland pharmacists are staging a public relations campaign aimed at scuttling a state Senate proposal that would help state employees, retirees and Medicaid recipients buy lower-price prescription drugs from Canadian mail-order pharmacies.
• The bill, which has 21 co-sponsors, two short of a majority in the 47-member Senate, is scheduled for a public hearing in the Senate Finance Committee this afternoon.
• Maryland is the newest front for an embattled FDA that is trying to quell a sagebrush rebellion against prescription drug prices that are typically 30 percent to 50 percent higher in the United States than in Canada and other nations that control medicine prices.
• The Montgomery County Council is considering whether it should follow Springfield, Mass., where the local government has set up a reimportation program for its employees and retirees.