Inhouse also sells HIV retrovirals, allergy inhalers, anti depression meds and a wide variety of meds that are essential to the people taking them. Now these people will be forced to pay 3 times more, if they can even afford it.

It’s going to result in deaths. God Bless America.

swadeshine, yes, it is. The usa is going to start yanking domain names because it thinks they own DNS.

Either way, now they will not ship to the US, and I need to find a new source before my current supply runs out.

I’d be happy to outsource my entire government to Canada and sell our Congress to forced labor camps in China.

As what, feed? It takes a dozen people to get one of them dressed and presentable in the morning. They wouldn’t make very good workers.

inhousepharmacy do NOT manufacture drugs so they are not ripping off intellectual property rights. They buy their drugs, in many cases, from the same companies that US pharmacies do (e.g. Glaxo Smith Cline, Cipla, Merck) for in-patent and generic drugs or reliable generic manufacturers for out of patent drugs. They are based in Vanuatu which is not exactly a hot house of high tech industry.

I’m afraid that this kind of protection is putting people in danger. The problem is most widespread and most obvious among trans people, many of whom have trouble accessing and affording good medical care. Since the unemployment rate among trans womyn is at least twice a high and may be several times as high as the unemployment rate for the rest of the population, and since most insurance companies, most doctors, and many pharmacists won’t do trans-related care, it can be difficult to get the medicine without places like Inhouse.

Hormone replacement therapy is often a matter of life or death. Depriving people of access to hormones can cause, among other things, severe osteoporosis. Since the regular medical system often deprives people of access, other sources are necessary.

It also means that the community vets which pharmacies to trust and which ones to avoid. Shutting down the safe pharmacies, and shutting down any pharmacy before it can get return customers, will just open the door to fly-by-night operations.

Being uninsured, I’d have to pay for monthly doctor visits, and 30-day prescriptions, and the meds, all out-of-pocket.

One month supply of my meds, generic, here in the U.S.: $390
One year supply of my meds, brand name, imported: $380

I guess I will hurry up and buy another year’s supply, or perhaps to lat until 2014.

I have been ordering from Inhouse for years with NO problems. These are the same meds I was getting when I had insurance (and a prescription) at FAR LESS COST. Inhouse doesn’t supply addictive narcotics, counterfeits, or any crap that these shills for Big Pharma scream about. All my meds came from big pharmaceuticals in Germany or New Zealand nullifying the claims of meds coming from sketchy 3rd world countries. Also, that protecting US research costs and all that? BS, all of my meds have been around for many years and long since out of patent.

I love the double talk from corporations and conservatives of “the free market” and their offshoring-that is the corporations can, but the people can’t.

Between this, our total sell out on the health care debacle, and the probably right wing wins in the next elections courtesy of a backlash against Obama et al., I’m done…outta here, tired of being shit on by the puppet masters. Off to a country that actually protects and cares about THE PEOPLE and not corporate profits and the rich. Off to a country where the people aren’t total drones that just keep taking the punishment the power elite bestows upon them.

Also, I just posted separately on how I have computer skills and would go back into the Army (because of my aforementioned lack of health insurance) if it weren’t for DADT. Yet another reason I just don’t feel very welcomed by the USA anymore.

If Americans wanted drug prices kept in line, they’d legislate price caps like the countries being re-imported from.

I only wish there was some way of obtaining this legally in the United States. I would be thrilled to be able to buy it from my local pharmacy, but I can’t and now I’m not entirely sure what to do without it short of moving to a liquid or soft foods diet on a semi-permanent basis.

What LegitScript can do for me is sod off and stop interfering with the medication I absolutely rely on to live and eat normally.

As for mandating prices in the US, again… if prices get too low, research costs never get made back. And if that happens, drugs stop getting researched. It’s foolish to request the first part happen without thinking about the consequences of the second. Right now, pharma counts on the US to make back most of its money. Which is, frankly, decidedly unfair. But with Canada, and India, and most places, restricting prices, or bypassing patent altogether and letting other companies make the stuff, where else is the capital going to come from?

I’d be happy to outsource my entire government to Canada and sell our Congress to forced labor camps in China.

Here’s where they make that claim: http://www.legitscript.com/blog/143

If I have to expat in 2012 after Sarah Palin gets elected, Canada is looking pretty appealing. Alternatives include Iceland and India. We Shall See.

There is also another issue here.

If one man or one company can determine who will be blackballed from the Internet, there is a fundamental question of free speech.

From the outset, most of the world suspected that ICANN was under the thumb of the US government. It turns out that is close to the truth.

In the interest of full disclosure, I point out that John Horton of LegitScript.com has told me he will sue me for defamation.

My article and his reply can be found at: http://www.bluemaumau.org/white_house_threatens_future_internet

Now, it’s REALLY expensive to develop a drug. Do drug companies make absurdly large profits? Yes, they do. Could they sell drugs cheaper? Maybe, it’s always hit and miss, some drugs never pay back the research investment. Could drug companies sell drugs at Canadian, or Indian, prices, and still stay open and doing research? No, absolutely not. At least, not until the government starts funding clinical trials.

Now, unlike almost any other invention, a drug company ‘wastes’ upwards of 25-50% of its patent time in the clinical trial phase, where it can’t sell compounds to the public. So any given compound is only under patent for about 2/3 the time that any OTHER invention would get sole sales rights. And since any useful drug WILL get picked up by a generics firm the instant it comes off patent, the companies have to make back the research investment (a bit over 8 billion, on average) in a reduced number of years. Hence: pills are expensive.

This really is different than, say, the IP debate, where an artist records something once on a piece of equipment bought a decade ago, then prints 10 cent CDs and sells them for 20 bucks, and gets offended when people dare to lend the CDs to one another. Drug discovery is immensely expensive, and if we want drugs to keep getting made, and for progress to be made fighting cancer, alsheimers, etc., we kinda need to pony up the funds. It’s very unfortunate for those priced out of the market. But they actually are putting future advances at risk by keeping these internet companies afloat.

Of course, on the other hand, if the choice is buying a pill online, or not buying it at all, it’s not like the company is actually losing money when somebody gets it from a different source. Sort of like how downloading an MP3 when you had no intention of ever, ever purchasing a CD doesn’t ACTUALLY cost the record industry a dime. But anyways. It’s in pharma’s best interest to shut down internet sites because of people who CAN afford local rates. Unfortunately, a lot of folks who aren’t in that category get caught up in the process.