Now it’s no longer just Pfizer ; now Eli Lilly is pissed Americans are getting cheap drugs, too . And according to this Kaiser Network report , GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and Wyeth want to rip-off only Americans, too. I’m still trying to figure out why the rest of the world is allowed to buy in bulk and get lower prices, but Americans aren’t. And it’s clearly not an anti-Canada thing, since Lilly is going to restrict Canadian pharmacy purchases to “amounts that Lilly estimates are sufficient to supply the Canadian market only.”

It’s a safety issue, says Lilly. My advise to seniors: watch out for all those counterfeit drugs coming in through the Canadian border:

bq(quote). Lilly officials have tracked a “steady increase” in cases of counterfeit and improperly stored Lilly products coming into the United States. The company’s move was based on recommendations from a Lilly task force formed two years ago to study the issue of drug imports from Canada, Smith said.

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