On the recordJuly 15, 2003
That is right. Our price being the one in Canada. Premarin, the U.S. price, $80. Our price, if you buy it through mail order from Canada, $17. One of my pharmacists called me today because he says I cannot sell this for $80. He says, when I buy this from my supplier in the U.S., it is costing me $74. The dirty little secret is that these folks are willing to sell. The savings are save 43 percent, save 40 percent, save 79 percent, save 26 percent. Save 86 percent on Nolvadex. $349 is the average U.S. cost. Buy the same drug, manufactured in the same plant in the U.S. and buy it, I am 180 miles from Detroit. Go 180 miles to Windsor and buy the same thing for $50. It is not like the Canadians have this phenomenal pharmaceutical system that they can build this stuff so much cheaper, manufacture this stuff so much cheaper. It is the same stuff built in the same plants in the U.S., but it is sold for 86 percent cheaper if you want to buy it from Canada, 45 percent, 54 percent, 23, 49, 52 percent. Zocor, I know that you have talked about that, $377 is the average cost in the U.S.
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