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Letter: Many countries offer cheaper drugs

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005 | 11:59 a.m.

You have heard about the low prices of drugs in Canada. What about other countries? France, Italy and Spain use direct price controls. Spain and Britain also limit profitability on a drug-by-drug basis.

The House Committee on Government Reform, in a 2001 report on prescription drugs prices, found as a result of controls, such drugs cost 31 percent to 48 percent less in Canada, France, Italy, Britain, Germany and Japan than in the United States.

Would we need the new phony drug "benefit" if we could buy drugs at European-Canadian prices? Who controls the prices of drugs here? The lobbyists of the rich and powerful drug companies easily have their way with a negligent Congress. The problem is not the government; the problem is no government. Isn't democracy grand?

Edward Loughlin

Las Vegas

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