From the New York Times:
U.S. Moves to Halt Import of Drugs From Canada
The Justice Department moved yesterday to close a chain of Canadian drugstores, signaling that federal regulators are cracking down on the import of cheaper drugs from abroad.

Carl Moore, president of the drug chain, Rx Depot, remained defiant. Rx Depot allows patients to order prescription drugs from Canada at prices often half those in the United States.

"We're not going to stop, and we're going to fight for the right of senior citizens to buy affordable medicines," Mr. Moore said.

From Newsday (NY):
U.S. Threatens Broker of Canadian Drugs
The Justice Department ordered Rx Depot to close up shop, as the Bush administration for the first time moved to shut down one of the numerous chains of stores that help senior citizens buy cheaper drugs from Canada.

In a letter Tuesday to Rx Depot's president Carl Moore that was obtained by The Associated Press, the DOJ said it would sue Moore unless he agrees by Thursday to shut down the company's 85 storefronts. The Justice Department said the stores, which are sometimes called Rx of Canada, violate federal law by helping U.S. consumers import drugs from Canada -- only manufacturers are allowed to bring medicines into the country.

From CNN Money:
U.S. warns firm over Canadian drugs
In the strongest government action yet against the cross-border flood of cheaper pharmaceuticals, federal regulators warned that they are close to filing a lawsuit against a storefront business that sells Canadian drugs around the U.S.

From MSNBC:
Feds target Canadian drug reseller
The Justice Department ordered Rx Depot to close up shop, as the Bush administration for the first time moved to shut down one of the numerous chains of stores that help senior citizens buy cheaper drugs from Canada.

From the Charlotte (NC) Observer:
Store helps import drugs from Canada
The Crimins' Canada Connection offers price quotes and order forms to patients who want to buy Canadian drugs. But patients must fax or mail in the forms themselves -- to a Winnipeg company, Canada Care Pharmacy. Derek and January Crimins will receive commissions on orders that come through store-supplied order forms. But their main service is providing a physical presence for patients who want to know how to get drugs safely and for less money.

From the Ottawa Citizen:
Competitor of Florida firm importing Canadian drugs thrives in Wisconsin
The phones started ringing early Tuesday, as Wisconsin's first store to help seniors and others order cheaper prescriptions from north of the border opened - amid threats to the drug-shipping industry in Florida.

Several dozen people visited Canada Drug Service, a Naples, Fla.-based company that takes prescription orders from U.S. doctors, faxes them to Vancouver, then sends the medication to customers' homes. "With seniors, word gets around pretty quick if they can save a buck," franchise owner Ted Farah said of the first day's business.

From the Milwaukee (WI) Channel:
Store Helps Patients Order Cheaper Canadian Drugs
Wisconsin's first store that lets people order cheaper prescriptions from north of the border opened Tuesday in a Milwaukee suburb. Several dozen people visited Canada Drug Service in Wauwatosa on its first day.

The company takes prescription orders from American doctors, sends them to pharmacies in British Columbia, then ships the drugs to customers' homes.

From CFCN-TV (Calgary):
Drug shortage affecting Calgarians
People in Calgary and across Canada are heading to the pharmacy for a drug and finding that it isn't available.

The drug is called Tapazole and it helps people with hyperthyroidism or those suffering from Graves disease.

From the Port Huron (MI) Times Herald:
Companies save prescription dollars
Buy Canadian RX in Port Huron and Can-Am PharmAssist in Marysville act as liaisons between their clients and the Canadian pharmaceutical community.

The companies help their customers, who typically have little or no health insurance, get prescriptions and medications from Canadian doctors and pharmacies, without leaving the country.

From the Toledo (OH) Blade:
Tour business owner ready to open prescription drug club in Toledo
A little more than a month after a Livonia, Mich., store opened promising to help Americans get cheap Canadian prescription drugs, a local man plans to start a business in Toledo tomorrow doing the same thing.

The business appears to be the first of its kind in Ohio and will be known as the Toledo Drug Club, which, like the Livonia store, is an outlet of American Drug Club, based in Winnipeg.

From the Ohio News Network:
Toledo Man Wants To Help People Get Prescription Drugs From Canada
A Toledo man plans to open a business tomorrow that will help customers get prescription drugs from Canada at prices much lower than those charged by U.S. pharmacies.

Steve Tobis plans to run the Toledo Drug Club out of the same offices as his charter tour business. It will be an outlet of the Winnipeg-based American Drug Club which opened a store in Michigan last month.

From the North Texas Daily:
Student starts company to sell Canadian drugs
Since Jason Morton began to run his own prescription medication company two years ago, he has helped people save hundreds of dollars by following a simple rule; all of his company's U.S.-made medications have been re-imported from Canada.

From WNTH-TV (MA):
New option to get prescriptions from Canada
The skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs is forcing a lot of people to make a run north of the border.

To Canada that is. But buying cheaper medication is now alternative
right here in Connecticut.

The long bus ride to Canada in search of affordable prescription drugs just got shorter.
RX Depot is now open for business here in West Haven. It is not a pharmacy. It processes orders for a Canadian-based pharmacy.

From the Indy Channel (IN):
State Panel Wants Shutdown Of Store Offering Canadian Drugs
The state board of pharmacists has asked Indiana's attorney general to shut down an eastern Indianapolis store that helps people buy lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada, saying such stores aren't safe because they're not regulated.

From the Aberdeen (SD) News:
Experts Debate How to Toss Out Medicines
What's the best way to throw away leftover, expired medicines? Once the answer was "flush 'em," to ensure children and animals couldn't stumble on the drugs and be poisoned.

Now scientists are increasingly warning not to flush drugs. Antibiotics, hormones and other medicines are being found in waterways - raising worrisome questions about potential health and environmental effects.

From the Rockford (IL) Register Star:
Buying foreign drugs draws concern, support
Ron and Rosie Magee couldn’t afford to pay $4,432 a month for their prescriptions, but they didn’t want to stop taking their medications.

They found a solution just north of the border.

The Magees became part of a growing trend among senior citizens: buying prescription drugs from Canada at a fraction of their cost in the United States.

From WBBM (IL):
Canadian Drugs Touted At AARP Meet
A Canadian pharmacy specialist blames high marketing expenses for driving up the U.S prices of drugs which are as much as twice the price of the same drugs in Canada.

From the Carolina Channel.com:
North Carolina Man Gets Prescription Drugs To Americans At Canadian Prices
In front of a small office in the Beaver Lake Office Plaza, a small Canadian flag flies over the door.

Inside, Ronald Chick runs Canada Med Services, one of a handful of shops nationwide that help bring lower-priced Canadian drugs to U.S. consumers.

From the Billings (MT) Gazette:
Opinion: Why should we pay more for prescriptions?
The Montana Board of Pharmacy recently filed a complaint against RxDepot of Billings for "aiding and abetting" a pharmacy unlicensed in Montana, along with assertions that drugs from the licensed Canadian pharmacy "posed a threat to cause immediate and irreparable harm to Montana citizens" and that Montana citizens importing drugs were criminals.

The District Court in Helena, acting without due process, has imposed the only operating injunction in the United States limiting access to inexpensive Canadian drugs. RxDepot suggests that Canadian drugs "pose a threat to cause immediate and irreparable harm" to Montana pharmacy profits.

From the Louisville (KY) Courier Journal:
Indiana investigates drug imports
The Indiana attorney general's office is investigating whether two Southern Indiana storefronts that sell low-priced prescription drugs from Canada are violating the state's pharmacy law.

Steve Yount, owner of Discount Medicine of Canada, which opened in a New Albany shopping center last spring, said he was notified by the attorney general's office of the investigation a few weeks ago.

From WorldNetDaily:
Libertarians: Stop gouging senior citizens
The Libertarian Party is urging Congress and the Bush administration to overturn a ban on the re-importation of prescription drugs, saying leaving it in place will continue to hurt senior citizens by forcing them to pay higher drug prices.

From the Edmonton Journal:
Doctors launch attack on drug firms
Dr. Steven Chambers was shocked to discover the drug company salesman knew more about what drugs he prescribed than he did himself.

The president of the Alberta Medical Association remembers listening as the salesman quoted his exact prescription patterns for two competing drugs used to lower patients' cholesterol.

From the Canadian Press:
Government approves birth-control pill designed for fewer periods
Editor's Note: Seasonale has not yet been approved in Canada.
The United States approved Friday the first birth-control pill specially designed to reduce the frequency of women's periods - from once a month to four times a year.

Hence the name: Seasonale. The pills aren't a new chemical. They contain the same combination of low-dose estrogen and progestin found in many oral contraceptives.

From KYTV (MO):
Canadian mail order prescriptions may soon cost more
The backlash over Canadian mail order pharmacies continues. Now America’s largest drug company is trying to shut them down while at the same time take away cheaper medications for countless seniors. Storefronts like Shop Canada Rx have been incredibly successful at saving seniors as much as 80% on prescriptions because Canada puts a cap on the cost of medications.

U.S. based Pfizer Incorporated and three other drug companies have cut supplies to Canadian pharmacies that order more than their domestic market dictates. This prevents them from reselling medication to American customers. In response, many Canadian pharmacies have shut down or have been forced to raise their prices. Pfizer says it’s because it is risky to take medication from Canada. Shop Canada Rx says there is no proof of higher risk with Canadian drugs, and not providing seniors with low prices is a real risk.

From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:
Rx Depot offers lower-cost Canadian medicine
A pair of Rx Depot Inc. outlets have opened in Westmoreland County in the past two weeks, the latest links to a fast-growing national chain that offers deep discounts on name brand and generic prescription drugs from licensed Canadian pharmacies.

From the Oakland (MI) Press:
Lawmakers battle over reimportation of drugs
Spurred by a growing demand for lower drug costs, two proposals in Congress would allow drugs to be reimported from Canada.

Part of the Medicare prescription drug proposals, the House plan would allow drugs to be reimported from Canada and 25 other countries, mostly in Europe. The Senate plan would allow drugs to be reimported only from Canada.
Consumers can save up to 80 percent by purchasing drugs from Canada because the government has price controls.

From the Ottawa Citizen:
Drug ads potentially harmful: journal
"It has been claimed that each dollar spent on consumer advertising for the allergy drug Claritin has brought in $3.50 in increased sales."

If U.S.-style ads were permitted in Canada, drug companies might spend $360 million a year and expect sales increases of $1.2 billion, the editorial extrapolated. "Those additional costs would be added directly to the cost of medicare."

Direct-to-consumer advertising will be on the table again this fall as the federal government considers changes to the Food and Drugs Act, said epidemiologist Barbara Mintzes.

From the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman:
Schumer pushes discount drug bill
You shouldn't have to win the lottery in order to buy your medicine," Schumer said. "We live during a time of tremendous medical advancement, when people can tack on years to their lives, and drastically improve their quality of life just by taking pills. It's an amazing thing, but if the price to reap these benefits continues going through the roof, no one's going to be able to afford them."

From the (Sonora, CA) Union Democrat:
Store leads to cheaper medication
Canada, home of the maple leaf and high-scoring hockey teams, is fast gaining a reputation for something else — cheap drugs.

Americans have been buying lower-cost prescription medications from Canada for years now, via the Internet and sometimes even by making trips to the neighboring country.

From the Boston Channel.com:
Proposed Drug Plan May Not Please Seniors
A new poll suggests that 54 percent of seniors want Congress to enact a prescription drug benefit, but most still worry their costs will be far too high.

The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health surveyed more than 2,000 adults and found that 76 percent of the elderly citizens polled are concerned -- including 52 percent who are "very worried" -- that they will still pay too much for prescription drugs.

From the National Post:
Doctors on drugs
The Canadian Medical Association's crusade to keep individual Canadians out of their own health care loop continues.

The CMA's official mouthpiece, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, yesterday published articles and an editorial aimed at stopping drug companies from advertising and marketing their products direct to Canadians. Drug ads on TV -- for anything from Viagra to Prozac and Zyban -- can only lead to higher costs to the health care system, said the CMAJ's editorial, and should therefore be banned in Canada.

From Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau:
Drug companies curbing sales from Canadian pharmacies to U.S. consumers
Canadian Internet pharmacies that sell discounted prescription drugs to U.S. consumers are struggling to find new suppliers in response to tough new sales restrictions imposed by major drug companies.

Said Michael Gluck, an associate professor at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.: "We are the largest market in the world (without price controls) and drug companies have strong financial incentives for making sure American customers buy at American prices."

From the Denver Post:
Worries over Canada drugs all about cash
David Hill seems healthy, which to hear America's drug industry tell it, is a medical miracle. Hill, you see, grew up in Canada. He spent his youth taking all those cheap, dangerous Canadian prescription medicines.

You know those drugs. They're the drugs that cost so much less in Canada than the same medications sold in this country. They're the drugs that U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacists and politicians disparage.

From the Kansas City Channel.com:
Local Company Offers Prescription Drugs At Big Discounts
A new Kansas company is offering prescriptions at a big discount, but some are concerned about the safety of the drugs, KMBC's Maria Antonia reported.

The company, called Canada Drug Services of Kansas, fills doctors' prescriptions at Canadian pharmacies, which mail the medicines directly to the consumer. Company founder Dan Ice said his customers save about 50 percent of what they would spend buying their drugs in the United States.

From Black Mountain News (NC):
Imported prescriptions may not be safe
More and more senior citizens are heading south and north to save money on prescription drugs.

From the Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal:
Plan would save money on prescriptions
Citing a survey that suggests Americans could save nearly 40 percent on prescription drugs if they bought them from Canada, Sen. Charles Schumer promised a group of local senior citizens Tuesday he would push to allow those drugs to be re-imported to the United States.

From USA Today:
Many don't see the benefit of prescription-drug bills
Like many of her friends, 71-year-old Claire Krulik has carefully calculated what she spends on prescription medicines and how much help she can expect if Congress agrees to add drug coverage to Medicare.

Her stark conclusion: She would be better off without either of the dueling plans facing the House and Senate this fall. Both include a complicated array of premiums, deductibles, co-payments and gaps in coverage. Krulik, who takes medicines for diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and other ailments, gets her drugs from Canada, where they cost up to 50% less. "For me, it wouldn't be worthwhile," she says of the potentially historic drug-benefit legislation moving through Congress. "I'd still be better off getting my medications from Canada."

From the Oakland County (MI) Press:
Pharmacy helps consumers with drug costs
Karen Hawley saved $90 on her prescription drugs this month, and she didn't have to drive to Canada or take her chances with an Internet site.

White Lake Pharmacy on Highland Road started a new program this month to help consumers buy less expensive drugs from Canada.

From the Regina Leader-Post:
Druggists can prescribe morning-after pills
Saskatchewan women can now get the morning-after pill without waiting to see their doctor.

The provincial government made changes Monday allowing pharmacists to prescribe and dispense the emergency contraceptive pill. Prescriptions will continue to be available from doctors, as well.

From the Boston Globe:
Americans find jump in cost of drugs from Canada
Americans are paying sharply higher prices when they buy many popular prescription drugs from Canada over the Internet, a sign that US drug makers are beginning to succeed in their efforts to disrupt cross-border purchases.

From the Washington Post:
An Unlikely Pair Fights For Cheaper Medications
Frost's question is music to Reps. Rahm Emanuel and Gil Gutknecht, the congressional odd couple pitching just such a plan. So far, Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat, and Gutknecht, a Minnesota Republican, are winning the fight, despite opposition from corporate and political heavyweights. In defiance of the Bush administration, Republican congressional leaders and the pharmaceutical industry, the House in July approved a bill that would allow Americans to shop for prescription medications outside the United States.

From the Lansing (MI) State Journal:
Area seniors tapping Canada's prescription drug supply
More mid-Michigan seniors are looking to Canada to buy their prescription drugs rather than paying an average of 40 to 60 percent more in their own country.

They're signing up for bus trips to Canadian pharmacies, buying Canadian drugs over the Internet and calling local agencies on aging to save money on the drugs that ease their pain and help them live longer.

From Canada.com:
Allowing drug ads would send sales, costs soaring in Canada: study
musing over whether to allow drug companies to advertise prescription drugs should expect huge increases in the costs of medicare and employee drug plans if Canada goes that route, a study published Tuesday suggests.

That's because drug advertising aimed at consumers prompts people to ask their doctors for new, expensive drugs, driving up sales by as much as $3.50 for every advertising dollar spent, according to an accompanying editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

From the (Toronto) Globe and Mail:
Drug advertising bad for medicare, CMA says
Allowing direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs in Canada would be a bonanza for the media, generating an estimated $360-million a year in new ads.

But the demand it created would also spur as much as $1.2-billion a year in new drug sales, and the beleaguered medicare system would have to bear most of that cost, according to an editorial in Tuesday's edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

From the Lenawee (MI) Daily Telegram:
GUEST COMMENTARY: Government must rework prescription drug policy
By Nick Smith, R-Addison, represents the 7th District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The American consumer is innovative. Forced to pay higher and higher prices for new medications, we look for other ways.

Some corporations that have promised their retirees drug coverage, as well as some senior groups, suggest government should increase taxes on everyone to pay part of the drug costs of seniors.

From the Toronto Star:
High-stakes showdown
While PhRMA members Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC, AstraZeneca PLC and Wyeth Co. have each gone to extraordinary lengths in attempting to limit supply of their products to Canadian pharmacies that promise not to engage in cross-border sales, at the same time they try to make light of the estimated 1 million Americans now said to be buying close to $1 billion worth of prescription drugs from the Canadian discounters.

From the San Mateo County (CA) Times:
U.S. drug industry throttling Canada's Internet pharmacies
Major drug companies have embarked on a campaign to strangle supplies to Canadian Internet pharmacies, driving up the prices of drugs and frustrating American consumers looking for cheaper medicine north of the border.

From the (Phoenix) Arizona Republic:
Valley little affected by drug firms' tactics
Businesses that sell Canadian pharmaceuticals in the Valley say they haven't been affected by American drug manufacturers' efforts to stop the sale of prescription drugs from across the border.

From the Canadian Press:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Biovail's Wellbutrin XL
Biovail Corp. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its once-daily anti-depression drug Wellbutrin XL, the company said Friday.

From the New London (CT) Day:
Read The Warning Label First
H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Sun's brightest star, noting the propensity of Congress to fix things that aren't broke, once sagely observed: “For every complex problem, there is an answer that is simple, neat and wrong.”

From the Hartford (CT) Courant:
Prescription Measure Backed
Sanders said he thinks it's absurd that in a global economy that imports everything from everywhere, the U.S. can't buy medicine outside its borders. On this legislation for reducing drug costs, he promised, "We're going to keep the pressure on."

From the Houston Chronicle:
Drug company talks with Canada on Serzone
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. today said it is discussing the safety of its antidepressant Serzone with Canadian regulators, but declined to say whether it is on the verge of pulling the medicine from Canadian drugstores.

Due to liver failure among some patients taking the drug, Bristol-Myers has already stopped selling Serzone in Europe -- leaving Canada, the United States and Australia as its only remaining major markets.

From the San Jose (CA) Mercury News:
Canada's Internet pharmacies hurting from industry steps to halt U.S. sales
In the last eight months, the outlook for Daren Jorgenson's CanadaMeds.com business has gone from upbeat to uncertain.

A strategy by major drug companies to strangle supplies to Canadian Internet pharmacies is stifling the industry, driving up prices and frustrating American consumers looking for cheaper medicines north of the border.

From the Toronto Star:
Drug war crossfire
The cost of all that effort is built into drug prices. Which helps explain why the excitement that once greeted the introduction of a Prozac or Celebrex has now given way to a widespread backlash among those footing the bill.

The recent U.S. outrage over drug prices is coming not just from the millions of low-income Americans who can't afford a yearly meds tab that can easily exceed $5,000. Major employers like General Motors Corp. are balking at the prodigious expense of funding ever-costlier drug plans for employees and retirees.

And U.S. state governments, many of them coping with budget crises, complain that paying even a portion of the drug costs of citizens covered by government health plans like Medicare and Medicaid will push them ever closer to insolvency as the Baby Boom generation moves into its drug-maintenance phase.

From the Kansas City Business Journal:
Canadian pharmacy will offer cheaper prescriptions
A company offering lower costs on prescription drugs by using a Canadian pharmacy will open two area locations.

Canada Drug Services of Kansas will open stores in Overland Park and Independence in early September.

From the Providence (RI) Journal:
Vt. lawmaker promotes drug-import bill
U.S. Rep. Bernard Sanders says the only real safety issue is that 20 percent of elderly Americans cannot afford the medicines they've been prescribed.

From the Boston Globe:
FDA sting targets medicine supplier
The US Food and Drug Administration has completed a sting operation targeting the supplier of Canadian drugs to the City of Springfield's employee insurance program, turning up a case of improperly handled insulin and at the same time infuriating Mayor Michael Albano, who called the FDA's tactics "underhanded."

From USA Today:
Canada's cheap drugs not answer, FDA warns
Cities and states should not encourage people to purchase drugs from other countries, nor should they look to import drugs from places like Canada to relieve their own strapped budgets, the Food and Drug Administration warns.

From the Providence (RI) Journal:
Froma Harrop: Big Pharma facing big challenge
Big Pharma is fighting a war it's bound to lose. If American pharmaceutical companies know what's good for them, they'll sue for peace and try to get the best terms available. So far, though, they've been going for total victory. To them, that means defeating all efforts to lower the prices they charge Americans.

From Quicken:
FDA Warns Cities, States About Buying Canadian Drugs
Federal regulators are moving to stall a drive by some cash-strapped state and city governments to acquire cheaper Canadian pharmaceuticals for their employees, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The Food and Drug Administration wrote to the state of California yesterday that state, city and county governments that import prescription drugs from Canada will nearly always be in violation of federal law. The agency also said that federal laws pre-empt state, city or county efforts to legalize the importation of drugs from Canada.

From the Hartford (CT) Courant:
Rep. Sanders To Do Four State Drug Blitz
"If we can pass a strong drug reimportation bill in the Senate, similar to what was passed in the House, we can lower the cost of prescription drugs in the country by 30 (percent) to 50 percent," Sanders said Wednesday. "And I intend to make that happen."

From the Wakefield (MA) Observer:
Making affordable prescriptions a reality
Commentary by Rep. Mike Festa who represents the 35th Middlesex District, which includes Wakefield precincts 3, 4, 5 and 6.

From the Buffalo News:
Survey shows gap between U.S., Canadian drug costs
Sen. Charles E. Schumer today released a new survey that starkly contrasts the high cost of prescription medication in New York State with the same drugs available in Canada.

A survey of more than 120 pharmacies statewide - eight in the Buffalo area - shows that local residents could save hundreds of dollars a year on many of the most commonly prescribed medications if they had access to drugs from Canadian pharmacies.

From Minnesota Public Radio:
A bipartisan call for drug reimportation
Seniors packed a Bloomington retirement community chapel Monday to hear about the high cost of prescription drugs. A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged them to lobby Congress in support of allowing the reimportation of prescription drugs from other countries. They say if Congress adds a prescription drug benefit to Medicare without doing anything about rising drug costs, seniors will be no better off.

From WBFO (NY):
Schumer Supports Re-Importation of Drugs from Canada
"The Lipitor in Canada is same as Lipitor in U.S. The Allegra is the same as in the United States, the Norvasc is the same," Schumer said. "They're just trying to scare you."

Appearing at the Amherst Senior Citizens Center yesterday, senior John Niedbalski of Hamburg says his wife takes 26 different prescription drugs each day. But he doesn't buy into the claims that Canadian drugs are unsafe.

"If there was truth to it there would be a lot of dead or sick Canadians," Niedbalski said.

From the Palm Beach (FL) Post:
Discount Drugs changes hands
Earle Turow, the Delray Beach retiree who helped spark a nationwide movement of buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada at U.S. stores, has sold his Discount Drugs of Canada business to one of his storefront operators.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Gutknecht pushes drug-importation bill at town hall meeting
It was a bit like a revival meeting Monday, with Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., exhorting a roomful of enthusiastic older Minnesotans to push Congress to open the door to importing drugs as a way to help save Americans from drug-company greed.

"This is not a debate between the right and the left," the conservative Republican said as he opened a congressional Town Hall Meeting on prescription drugs, with Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., by his side. "This is between right and wrong, and it is simply wrong to force Americans to pay the world's highest prices for prescription drugs."

From WIVB-TV (NY):
Schumer Pushes Plan to Reduce Cost of Prescription Drugs
Senator Schumer says he's not out to slay the drug companies, believing they should make a profit, and Schumer says don't believe those, who try to tell you the prescription drugs from Canada are not safe.

From MSNBC:
Importer of Canadian drugs closes
A drug discounter in Winston-Salem that shipped cheap Canadian prescription medications for U.S. Medicare recipients has closed its doors only three months after opening.

Rx Price is Right, which opened May 1 off Silas Creek Parkway, was one of five firms in North Carolina that were under a June cease-and-desist order from the N.C. Pharmacy Board. Like its sister firms, Rx Price is Right promised clients 50 percent savings on prescription medications shipped from Canada.

From WHTR-TV (IN):
New pharmacy in town gives patients a pricing alternative
He says people who want cheaper drugs just come in and get a quote. "Then they fill out a little bit of paperwork, medical questionnaire, patient information and customer agreement and with a payment. I fax that, all the information, up to a Canadian pharmacy."

From WISH-TV (IN):
Business Offers Discount Prescription Drugs
Senior citizens in Indiana who need prescription drugs now have a new place to shop.

It's the first day of business for RX Depot on the east side of Indianapolis on Shadeland Ave. RX Depot offers cheap versions of prescription drugs that are imported from Canada. However, the practice of importing such drugs from Canada has generated some controversy.

From IndyChannel.com (IN):
Indy Outlet Offers Cheaper Canadian Drugs
A service center to help people buy lower-cost prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies opened Monday morning on the city's east side.

From the Denver Post:
AG targets importing of drugs
Colorado should make it a felony to operate an unlicensed pharmacy by importing drugs from unregistered foreign pharmacies, Attorney General Ken Salazar told a group of independent pharmacists Sunday.

Salazar spoke to RxPlus Pharmacies at its annual meeting and discussed what his office is doing to combat the illegal sale of prescription drugs from Internet and mail-order sales.

In addition to stiffening penalties, a Salazar aide said the legislature should make it illegal to operate a website that charges people to connect them with unregulated pharmacies.

From the Detroit News:
Why drugs cost more in the U.S.
Buying prescriptions drugs from a Canadian mail-order company rather than her neighborhood pharmacy in Farmington Hills will save 74-year-old Erica Shire at least $2,000 this year.

Shire, who takes seven medications daily to control diabetes and a heart problem, would rather buy her medicine in America but simply can't afford it.

"I don't know why the richest country in the world cannot have medication for seniors cheaper," she said.

From the Canadian Press:
Two potential new Viagra rivals heading for lucrative U.S. market
Viagra, the little blue pill that has revolutionized the sex lives of millions of men, has two potential rivals knocking at the door of the big U.S. market.