Doug Bereuter: “Evidently, it is Mr. McClellan who is out of touch with reality. Millions of Americans are finding prescription drug…”

“Evidently, it is Mr. McClellan who is out of touch with reality. Millions of Americans are finding prescription drug reimportation from Canada and other countries to be a viable and necessary alternative to high-priced drugs in the United States. The number of those Americans is growing every day. It would be wrong for Members of Congress to ignore this reality and to ignore the excessive cost of prescription drugs in America. If Mr. McClellan thinks Americans are content to allow price gouging on prescriptions to continue, he is mistaken. American consumers are understandably fed up. Large pharmaceutical manufacturers have long been gouging American consumers by charging substantially more, in some cases up to 90 percent more, for prescription drugs sold in the United States than in Canada and other industrialized countries. Americans refuse to be exploited by the pharmaceutical industry any longer. The exploitation of American consumers must end.”