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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:24 PM
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Concern over FDA Confiscation of Medications to Minnesota Seniors...
Dayton Expresses Concern over FDA Confiscation of Medications, Being Shipped by Reputable Canadian Pharmacy to Minnesota Seniors

http://www.senate.gov/~dayton/news/details.cfm?id=230088&&

what's so 'free' about the cheney/bush admin's fantasy of free trade x(
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:27 PM
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1. Free to practice price gouging without competition
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:30 PM
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2. Killing your own people all in the name of PROFIT.
Big Pharm and Big Oil run this country and will kill this country too. Kick and Nom, taking Seniors medication is like the bully on the playground. This Nation is doomed.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:31 PM
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3. Canada to Minnesota via Miami?
Somewhat circuitous route it would appear to the uninformed observer...
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:33 PM
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5. sad to think diabetics will need to smuggle insulin as do heroin &...
crack dealers, but it seems the bush admin's policy to rend everyone a criminal but for themselves
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:32 PM
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4. I thought this was being allowed now..
Or am I remembering a misinformation piece designed to make me THINK that this was being allowed now?
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:34 PM
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6. a current mention this day, indicates the practice is still on-going...
disgusting in either event imo
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:36 PM
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7. Why? They're just doing their job as specified by the Administration.
Namely, Protecting the interests of Pharmaceutical companies and sexually repressed religious right whackjobs.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:37 PM
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8. sad but true...
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rubberducky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:38 PM
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9. My first thought was...
how could anybody be so heartless?? Then when someone brought up the free trade agreement, it makes me wonder if this isn`t free trade? Or is that just for the "good old boys"??
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:38 PM
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10. We do this
and so far so good. My meds, the ones I can get from Canada, are 1/3 the cost.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 03:40 PM
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11. i'd like to see just how big the net they cast really is...
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 04:18 PM
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12. Me too.
It will be interesting to see how this goes.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 05:11 PM
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13. i am relieved to hear you are getting yours, this seems a straight...
forward pay for goods & services template to me, as it should be :hi:
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