PSP Consumer Article
Pfizer Blocks Sale of Cheap Drugs - Part 1
25th July 2004
A concerned Pharmacy Shark Patrol (PSP) subscriber picked up a recent article from MSNBC website. Pfizer filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware halting a web site from selling a cheaper generic brand.
This bulletin is part 1 of a series aimed at highlighting the issues associated with big pharma taking over. Part 2 will be aimed at the solutions (and there are plenty).
Many people believe over priced big pharma brands are not affordable. In countries like Canada and Australia pharmaceuticals are available at between half to one third of the price of the identical product sold in USA.
The generic brands are important, making it possible for fixed or low income people to afford better life style medication. Generic brands also keep big pharma price hikes down.
Additionally, if big pharma gets a monopoly they will squeeze the distribution channels out of existence. If there is only one brand you get no choices, you are told the price and you take what you are given. You certainly do not need wholesalers, sales or marketing people to give you choices.
Big pharma want to double the price and hope their sales volumes only drop slightly, so their profit will significantly increase. Without competition you can get away with less work, fewer deliveries and show a disgustingly high profit. When choices and competition is limited the consumer will pay more.
Political funding by big pharma in an election year can not be overlooked. However, the USA has a well educated older population facing outrageously high medication costs. No amount of funding can save a Politian who thinks (s)he can ignore grey power.
Last year Pfizer took the path of using trade mark arguments to prevent
Google and Overture from accepting advertisers of competitive lines. Pfizer
made it harder for generics to compete, but did not stop generics. People
simply learned the generic names and then continued to order drugs like
Lipitor under the relevant pharmaceutical name Lipitor = Atorvastatin.
Please see http://www.DrugStoreBestBuys.com for a full range of brand and generic ED, Weight and Hair medication equivalents such as Viagra = sildenafil citrate and Levitra = vardenafil and Cialis = tadalafil and Propecia = finasteride etc.
In countries like Canada and Australia, chemists and Doctors are able to prescribe the medications that offer the best value to their patients. In many countries the generic products keep the prices of big pharma brands down, to less than half the price paid for the same product by USA consumers.
Part 2, out next week will deal with the many solutions to over priced
medications.
Please encourage your friends to subscribe to Pharmacy Shark Patrol:
http://www.drugstorebestbuys.com/newsletter.htm
Regards
Rick O'Shea
www.drugstorebestbuys.com
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