Crack Down On Online Pharmacies
By www.menhealthonline.biz
The U.S. government has been cracking down on online pharmacies in an attempt to stop personal prescription medicines imports by Americans in dire need. Americans overburdened by unreasonably high prices of medicines have been flowing to online pharmacies in an attempt to receive cheaper much needed prescribed medications.
The gainers from the governments actions are of course the American medicine manufacturers, the medical insurance companies, which by the way pay much less for the drugs than the average uninsured do, and the regular street pharmacies.
The FDA just passed a law that forbids importation of pharmaceuticals by individuals from Canadian pharmacies, while the Canadian regulatory laws for pharmaceuticals are just as good as the U.S’s. The main difference or the only difference between these pharmaceuticals is the prices. In Canada the prices for exact same medications is a fraction of the price in the U.S, who is gaining from all of this? Ask your medical insurance companies, you local drug manufacturers, and your representatives in both houses.
The fact is the online pharmacy trade should be regulated, due to the danger in taking non prescribed drugs that could have dangerous side effects. But it should not be stopped. It is time for representatives in the congress and senate to stand up and decide what is more important, the money being funneled to them by the lobby groups that represent the money making agenda of stopping the online pharmacy trade, or the lives, security, and the ability to afford prescription drugs by Americans, especially the elderly and the low income classes that struggle as it is.
Online pharmacies have many advantages, some of which are lower priced medications, higher availability of medications to supply customers’ needs, a good example of that is the shortage of Tamiflu in many U.S. areas (Tamiflu is one of only two drugs that help fight the avian
