Rx Sanity

Reading the reviews can get you in trouble, but reading an unsolicited reader's blurb on Amazon.com led me to a fascinating website: RxSanity.org. The lead essay, "The Battle Over Americans' Rights to Affordable Reimported Prescription Drugs," provides an incisive analysis of the U.S. government's refusal to protect consumers here against drug industry price gouging.

The site provoked this thought: Isn't it ironic that when laid off steelworkers and computer programmers complain about imports and outsourcing, they are branded as protectionists. But when these same Americans clamor for free trade in drugs from Canada, their government "protects" them from allegedly unsafe products. I guess that tells us which industry is running the more effective protection racket.