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...general and the unchecked increase in drug prices in particular. Both have grown irritated with Congress's failure to consider pricing alternatives and have become especially annoyed lately with the FDA's threats to initiate legal actions against any government that seeks to enter into buying arrangements with the Canadians to slash their prescription drugs costs for employees, prisoners and Medicaid recipients. The latter group represents a significant financial burden for the states. Although the feds kick in some Medicaid money, overall spending on drugs topped $23 billion in 2002, with New York accounting for $3 billion and California...
...cause of death in the U.S., depending on how the cases are counted. By comparison, the risk from defective, counterfeit or mislabeled drugs from Canada is presumed but unproved by any evidence. When TIME asked a spokesman for PhRMA, the drug-industry association, if there were any cases of Canadian drug imports harming Americans, he said, "Yes, I believe there have been some. I believe FDA has some on its website." In fact, the FDA has no such record. Over and over, congressional committees have grilled FDA officials to produce evidence of Americans who were sickened or who died...
...adverse events, where people have been harmed by Canadian drugs coming across the border, did you bring any of those examples for us?" asked Representative Burton of Indiana...
Although no state has yet begun to do that, two local governments--Springfield, Mass., and Montgomery, Ala.--are buying drugs and saving millions. Some two dozen other cities and states have begun efforts to link up with Canadian suppliers. "Cash-strapped state and local governments are looking for relief in a logical place," says Representative Jo Ann Emerson, a Missouri Republican. Further fueling the states' animosity toward the feds, the FDA has threatened legal action against state and local governments that pursue the Canadian option, thereby increasing the likelihood of another congressional showdown...
...liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each--the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...