Since folks want to throw Cory under the bus...

[pnwmom]

43. I'm not angry with them. Are you aware that they've already discovered

shipments of fake drugs in Seattle from Canada? The problem is that Canada has no regulations for drugs that get shipped through Canada from other countries. So how would consumers here know they were buying the real thing? And not getting the real thing can be a matter of life or death.

There is no perfect bill but this one is deeply flawed, and Murray and Cantwell were right to vote against it.

Think about it. There are 10 times as many people in the US. What makes you think US manufacturers would agree to send 4 or 5 or 10 times as much product as they have been to Canada, knowing that it would just be reimported to the US at a lower price? What would they have to gain? They wouldn't. And who would fill the gap? The producers of the fake/adulterated products.

Our Federal government should be negotiating directly with the drug companies, not trying to piggyback onto the tiny Canadian system.