[lit-ideas] Re: Canadian aboriginal women
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:32:16 +0100
Saturday, October 9, 2004, 8:06:03 PM, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:
Eac> In a message dated 10/9/2004 1:05:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
Eac> judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Eac> I'd better stop your researches, Marlena; they're taking your time
Eac> away from working for Kerry! Bush didn't call Canada a Third World
Eac> country, he simply (!) said the drugs from Canada could be from the
Eac> Third World. I.e., swinish Canadians could be selling adulterated
Eac> drugs to people in the US.
Eac> Dear Judy,
Eac> Dang. <g> You caught me!
:-) I waited for a while, I didn't want to spoil the fun!
Eac> But, if you read what he said, my interpretation
Eac> MIGHT fit.
Nope....
Eac> (even though I agree that it is not what he meant..) (It did get
Eac> me reading about Canada, though, and yes, I do tend to get
Eac> sidetracked...<sigh>...actually, I'm supposed to be
Eac> cleaning out closets.
I understand; I have to sort some papers, a lot of papers; and then,
clean out some closets!
Judy
Eac> But, I'm rewarding
Eac> myself with either reading stuff here or in my multiple regular print
Eac> materials. <sigh> )
Eac> Here is that part of the debate...then some references about it...
Eac> For those who missed the debate, you can at least get the transcript of it
Eac> from here:
Eac>
_http://www.realcities.com/multimedia/nationalchannel/news/KRT_Packages/archiv
Eac> e/election_2004/100804_debate_transcript.htm_
Eac>
(http://www.realcities.com/multimedia/nationalchannel/news/KRT_Packages/archive/election_2004/100804_debate_tr
Eac> anscript.htm)
Eac> Back to sorting,
Eac> Marlena in Missouri
Eac> BUSH: I haven't yet. Just want to make sure they're safe. When a drug comes
Eac> in from Canada, I want to make sure it cures you and doesn't kill you.
Eac> And that's why the FDA and that's why the surgeon general are looking very
Eac> carefully to make sure it can be done in a safe way. I've got an
obligation to
Eac> make sure our government does everything we can to protect you.
Eac> And what my worry is is that, you know, it looks like it's from Canada, and
Eac> it might be from a third world.
Eac> And we've just got to make sure, before somebody thinks they're buying a
Eac> product, that it works. And that's why we're doing what we're doing.
Eac> BUSH VS. REALITY - Intelligence
Eac> BUSH CLAIMS: â??QUESTIONER: Why did you block the reimportation of safer
and
Eac> inexpensive drugs from Canada which would have cut 40 to 60 percent off of
the
Eac> costs? BUSH: I haven't yet. I just want to make sure they're safe. When a
Eac> drug comes in from Canada, I want to make sure it cures you and doesn't
kill
Eac> you.â??
Eac> REALITY: White House Strongly Opposed Drug Re-Importation Despite
Eac> Congressional Research Service Reports Concluding Canadian Drugs Are Just
as Safe as
Eac> Those in the US. . In a Statement of Administration Principals issued by
the
Eac> White House Office of Management and Budget on July 23, 2003, Bush stated
his
Eac> strong opposition to drug re-importation. The SAP states, â??H.R. 2427 [to
allow
Eac> the re-importation of prescription drugs] is dangerous legislation. It
would
Eac> expose Americans to greater potential risk of harm from unsafe or
Eac> ineffective drugs, would be extremely costly to implement, and would
overwhelm FDA's
Eac> already heavily burdened regulatory system.â?? This despite the fact that
the
Eac> Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress,
issued
Eac> reports in 2001 and 2003, concluding both times that the Canadian drug
supply was
Eac> safe for importation to the US. The 2003 report stated, "The statutory
Eac> requirements for approving and marketing pharmaceutical products in the
United
Eac> States and Canada are, in general, quite similar." It found that
medications
Eac> manufactured and distributed in Canada meet or surpass quality control
Eac> guidelines set by the FDA. [Office of Management and
Eac> Budget, SAP on HR 2472, 7/23/03,
Eac> www.whitehouse.gov/omb; New York Times, 6/21/03; Knight Ridder, 11/27/03;
USA
Eac> Today, 8/12/03]
Eac> John Kerry Will Fight to Make Prescription Drugs More Affordable. John
Kerry
Eac> voted again and again to permit licensed pharmacists or wholesalers to
import
Eac> prescription drugs from Canada to help cut down on prescription drug
costs.
Eac> He has cosponsored legislation and voted to give states incentives to
Eac> negotiate Medicaid prescription drug prices with
Eac> manufacturers and require drug
Eac> manufacturers to give Medicaid programs the same discounts they gave to
HMOs and
Eac> other preferred customers, and called for similar negotiating powers for
Eac> Medicare. Kerry and Edwards will cut prescription drugs costs by allowing
the
Eac> federal government to negotiate better prices through the Medicare program;
Eac> permitting the reimportation of safe, FDA-approved drugs; supporting
incentives
Eac> to allow generic drugs to get to market faster. [Vote #217, 7/19/00; Vote
Eac> #200, 7/31/02; Vote #201, 7/31/02; Vote #232, 6/20/03; S. 2605, Kerry
cosponsored
Eac> 10/8/90; S. 3029, Kerry cosponsored 10/8/90; Vote #182, 7/18/02;
Associated
Eac> Press, 12/15/03; www.johnkerry.com]
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