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"Source: information contained in the report "Enough to Make Your Sick: prescription drug prices for the Elderly" from Families USA 80 http://www.therubins.com/geninfo/eldpresc.htm VIAGRA, CONTINUED So far we just discussed the money. But we didn't talk about the side effects of all those drugs. So let's pick out just a few examples. And let us continue with our ' Viagra Story' originally designed for the elderly. Because the fact is, we didn't even mention one tenth of the truth about Viagra. So let's take a closer look. One problem for the elderly population is the lessening sex-drive." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In the debate over prescription drug prices, drug safety, and oversight from the FDA, the assumption has been that everybody has access to the same data and that everybody, from drug safety officers to doctors to insurers, is equally capable of assessing the merits and dangers of a drug. That's not the case. In fact, maybe the real problem with prescription drugs, and indeed with medical technology in general, is not so much that they cost too much or that they're too dangerous or that they don't always work the way they're supposed to." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The United States is the only developed country in the world that does not control prescription drug prices. Only the United States and one other country, New Zealand, allow drugmakers to advertise to consumers. The industry has also won new laws that have added years to the average length of time their products are protected from competition by patents. Another law allowed the companies to profit from medical discoveries made by taxpayer-funded scientists." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Why are prescription drug prices rising four times faster than inflation? Why does the FDA enforce a drug market monopoly by insisting that Americans should not be able to buy the exact same drugs from Canada or other countries? Why do Big Pharma CEOs take home tens of millions of dollars in salaries each year, even while our nation's elderly are so financially burdened by prescription drug prices that they sometimes have to choose between food and medicine?" - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The council had taken on the state of Virginia's Board of Pharmacy for its rules forbidding advertising of prescription drug prices by retail pharmacists. Like similar laws in many other states, the pharmacy board had long held that advertising of prescription drugs would cause too much competition, resulting in the degradation of pharmacy professionalism and, eventually, the destruction of the pharmacist-customer relationship. In essence, people would lose respect for the profession if it advertised." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"In the debate over prescription drug prices, drug safety, and oversight from the FDA, the assumption has been that everybody has access to the same data and that everybody, from drug safety officers to doctors to insurers, is equally capable of assessing the merits and dangers of a drug. That's not the case. In fact, maybe the real problem with prescription drugs, and indeed with medical technology in general, is not so much that they cost too much or that they're too dangerous or that they don't always work the way they're supposed to." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Why do Big Pharma CEOs take home tens of millions of dollars in salaries each year, even while our nation's elderly are so financially burdened by prescription drug prices that they sometimes have to choose between food and medicine? Why do consumers buy into the awkward notion that we should all over-pay for prescription drugs so that drug companies can fund the R&D to find future cures? Are they going to give away those future drugs? Of course not: They'll charge for them and profit from them. Consider all your options: whole foods, herbs, vitamins and exercise." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"But if prescription drug prices give you a headache, beware. One of the most successful migraine medicines, Imitrex (sumatriptan), will cost you nearly $20 a tablet. HEAD-TO-HEAD People don't mind paying top dollar if they believe they are getting their money's worth. That's why so many consult Consumer Reports magazine when they are trying to decide what microwave oven, digital camera, or cell phone to purchase. Consumers Union makes an effort to test many of the brands buyers are likely to find in their local stores." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Some state legislatures are crafting measures that would permit them to regulate prescription drug prices for state employees, Medicaid recipients, and the uninsured. Like managed care plans, they are creating formularies of preferred drugs. The industry is fighting these efforts tooth and nail— mainly with its legions of lobbyists and lawyers. It fought the state of Maine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 2003 upheld Maine's right to bargain with drug companies for lower prices, while leaving open the details." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

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