Health: To Be Under the Senates Thumb or Not to be

.......[c]2006 by
Richard L Zorek....10.02.06.........
Missouri Senator Jim Talent and challenger Claire McCaskill have similar views on importing prescription drugs, but Talent seems to favor government scrutiny also (which is, in other words, more government intervention on it..which is clearly the problem we have already). He says, "I’ve always supported permitting reimportation through a process that guaranteed safety. Many of these drugs are manufactured in third world countries, and I want to make sure our consumers are protected. I support a provision in the Homeland Security funding bill that would allow U.S. citizens to bring a 90-day supply of prescription drugs for personal use back from Canada." So, every 90 days people have to run back to Canada? McCaskill, on the other hand, gets right to the point: "If Congress is going to remain under the thumb of the pharmaceutical industry, Americans ought to have the choice to import prescription drugs from other countries that haven’t been put under its spell." Apparently, the number of sick people in America without insurance and affordable prescriptions wouldn't be a big deal to Talent as long as Congress, or Homeland security can scrutinize it (which is a nice way of saying "dissecting" or even "destroying" the ideas.