>You cannot be serious...can you? That's not even a good attempt at spin. PMPRB is a governmental agency determining the maximum allowable price for patented drugs to be sold in Canada. On what planet is that not price fixing?
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>Here's an example from today's news : http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205120&Itemid=33
>The Board issued a Notice of Hearing pertaining to allegations of Board Staff that Concerta had been, and was being, sold by Janssen-Ortho Inc. at prices exceeding those indicated by the Board's Excessive Price Guidelines. On April 3, 2009, the Hearing Panel received a Voluntary Compliance Undertaking ("VCU") which proposed to resolve the issues raised in the Notice of Hearing.
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>The VCU requires, among other things, that Janssen-Ortho offset excess revenues in the amount of $1,464,441.58 by making a payment to the Government of Canada. By Order of the Board, the proceeding into the price of Concerta is hereby concluded.

OK, let's agree to call this a price fixing if you want. Given that, I'm still in favor of the governmental agency. I refuse to be taken in hostage by drug companies in the case that I desperatly need a given drug to survive.

>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300939,00.html

I never said that our system is perfect. This is a case where improvment can/must be made. The bottom line is that thoses mothers and babies are alive and healthy today. Inconvenient? Yes. Life-threatening? Hardly.