Another chance for American Senators to make a real change that would quickly help Americans lower the cost of their health care came and went last week, when the Senate voted 51-48 to shoot down an amendment that would have allowed American citizens to get their prescription drugs from countries who actually have the the backbone to impose cost controls on the pharmaceutical industry.

In today’s political climate, rarely does any issue receive bi-partisan support, however the drug importation amendment did. The problem was that the amendment needed at least 60 votes to pass, which it did not receive.

But why didn’t the amendment pass? Couldn’t all Americans use a break on the cost of their everyday prescriptions like Plavix and Xenical?

The answer is simple, to protect the profits of the big pharmaceutical companies.

An article from Examiner.com explains why the amendment was voted down:

“Speculation is the pharmaceutical industry made a deal with the White House to commit 80 billion dollars over the next 10 years to health care reform. The deal was supposedly contingent upon Congress not asking for more cuts in their profits.”

The article wen on to say,

“There is only one simple reason why the pharmaceutical companies charge 50% or more in the United States than they do in other countries. It is because our government allows it. The never ending desire to allow corporations to make as much money as they can at the expense of the working class creates fertile ground for these extortionists to pad their bottom lines.

Millions of people currently buy their prescriptions from Mexico or Canada, as they try to save as much money as they can from an industry that tries to extract as much as possible from them before they die. How much could people have saved with the simple passage of this amendment, in spite of the backroom deal the drug makers have with the White House?”

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