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New JAMA Article Recommends Personal Drug Importation To Help American Patients Afford Prescription Drugs

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Harvard doctors and public health experts recommend using the website PharmacyChecker.com to find international online pharmacies to order more affordable prescription drugs for personal importation when domestic savings strategies fail. They offer this advice in a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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The Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act is Big Pharma’s Bill

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The true aim of the bill’s backers may be to stop personal importation of non-addictive, non-opioid, more affordable medicines that help patients get the treatments they need. Drug companies and big chain pharmacies don’t want the competition of lower drug prices offered by international online pharmacies because it means lower profits.

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Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy Dreams Are Generic

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Mark Cuban’s new online pharmacy venture – the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (“Cost Plus Drug”) – will not help overcome the biggest obstacle to drug affordability in America, which is drug company monopolies on patented brand name prescription drugs. That’s even cheaper than foreign online pharmacy prices , including in India. .

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Manitoba Judge’s Opinion Reveals Different Side of the CanadaDrugs Case

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It’s important because this case was wrongly used as a pretext to oppose safe personal drug importation and international online pharmacies, which help Americans afford prescription drugs. Kris Thorkelson never pled guilty to selling counterfeit drugs. supply chain.