2009, ISBN: 9781234624675

Rarebooksclub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. LC Number: KF25 . E2 2009n OCLC Number: (OCoLC)613333786 Subject: Predatory lending -- United Sta… Plus…

Rarebooksclub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. LC Number: KF25 . E2 2009n OCLC Number: (OCoLC)613333786 Subject: Predatory lending -- United States. Excerpt: . . . s containing pharmaceutical products are imported into the U. S. every year. This is an increase of over 1, 000 percent in only 2 years. As this subcommittee has heard ad nauseam, drugs procured outside the United States regulatory system can be dangerous for numerous reasons. FDA acknowledges that it cannot monitor nor guarantee the safety and effectiveness of drugs purchased outside the closed U. S. distribution system. FDA has warned the public that drugs purchased from foreign countries could be counterfeit, cheap foreign imitations of FDA approved drugs that could be subpotent or superpotent, expired drugs, contaminated drugs or drugs stored under unsafe conditions. At this subcommittees June 7, 2001 hearing which highlighted the public health concerns that these drugs posed to the American people, the FDA proposed to the Department of Health and Human Services that it eliminate its personal use policy for mail imports allowing FDA and Customs to deny entry of all these illegal drugs into the U. S. and return them to senders. No action has been taken on this proposal. And this is, perhaps, understandable given the apparent split in public and political opinion on personal reimportation policy. Why are U. S. consumers playing Russian roulette with their medications by purchasing them over the Internet from unknown sources The fact is that the skyrocketing prices of medications are increasingly out of the reach for too many of our seniors and nearly all those on fixed incomes. Some of the seniors who testified at our oversight hearing in Mr. Deutschs district in March of this year stated that they often forego other essentials to purchase their necessary medications. In a country as wealthy as ours we have to do better than this. It is my sincere belief that the Medicare Reform bill that this committee . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., Rarebooksclub.com<

2009, ISBN: 9781234624675

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. LC Number: KF25 . E2 2009n OCLC Number: (OCoLC)613333786 Subject: Predatory lending -- United States.… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. LC Number: KF25 . E2 2009n OCLC Number: (OCoLC)613333786 Subject: Predatory lending -- United States. Excerpt: . . . s containing pharmaceutical products are imported into the U. S. every year. This is an increase of over 1, 000 percent in only 2 years. As this subcommittee has heard ad nauseam, drugs procured outside the United States regulatory system can be dangerous for numerous reasons. FDA acknowledges that it cannot monitor nor guarantee the safety and effectiveness of drugs purchased outside the closed U. S. distribution system. FDA has warned the public that drugs purchased from foreign countries could be counterfeit, cheap foreign imitations of FDA approved drugs that could be subpotent or superpotent, expired drugs, contaminated drugs or drugs stored under unsafe conditions. At this subcommittees June 7, 2001 hearing which highlighted the public health concerns that these drugs posed to the American people, the FDA proposed to the Department of Health and Human Services that it eliminate its personal use policy for mail imports allowing FDA and Customs to deny entry of all these illegal drugs into the U. S. and return them to senders. No action has been taken on this proposal. And this is, perhaps, understandable given the apparent split in public and political opinion on personal reimportation policy. Why are U. S. consumers playing Russian roulette with their medications by purchasing them over the Internet from unknown sources The fact is that the skyrocketing prices of medications are increasingly out of the reach for too many of our seniors and nearly all those on fixed incomes. Some of the seniors who testified at our oversight hearing in Mr. Deutschs district in March of this year stated that they often forego other essentials to purchase their necessary medications. In a country as wealthy as ours we have to do better than this. It is my sincere belief that the Medicare Reform bill that this committee . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<