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The Kansas City Star, Mo., Jerry Heaster Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Jerry Heaster, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 16--BLAME CONGRESS, NOT GLAXO: The latest controversy over how best to provide affordable prescription drugs for seniors promises to hinder rather than help the cause.
As more older Americans have turned to Canada to alleviate drug bills, it was only a question of time before the major drug manufacturers withdrew from the Canadian market.
When GlaxoSmithKline recently became the first to move to cut off supplies to Canadian pharmaceutical outlets selling to Americans, the outraged reaction was predictable. An early salvo was a full-page ad in The New York Times financed by a coalition of mostly Canadian pharmacy interests and American senior...
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