Press Release

A CHALLENGE TO ALL AMERICANS FROM DAREN JORGENSON

August 24, 2005

WINNIPEG - It was one year ago today that Pharmacist Daren Jorgenson, Founder of many online Canadian pharmacies, including www.canadameds.com, launched his new website, www.Americaputmeoutofbusiness.com challenging Americans to put him out of business 'the right way'. Mr. Jorgenson, a pioneer of the mail-order pharmacy industry, challenged American citizens to shut down his very successful mail-order pharmacy business in Canada and around the world by urging their elected officials to bring affordable prescription prices to American pharmacies so that Americans are not paying more for their prescription medications than citizens of any other developed country in the world.

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Political news on your political leaders for the importation of prescription drugs from Canadian online pharmacies.

Americaputmeoutofbusiness.com is a direct challenge to all American Citizens to band together and tell their elected officials that they are outraged at paying 80% more than citizens of any other country for their prescription medication. Canadian pharmacies online are providing many U.S. Citizens with affordable prescription medication, although they are also having issues with importing drugs to the United States leaving many people without there life saving medication. We hope that American people will realize this is a huge issue and will hold their elected officials accountable for their past and present positions on the issue.

Americaputmeoutofbusiness.com brings you up to date politics and political news articles that effect importation of Canadian drugs from Canadian pharmacies. With President George Bush winning the 2004 re-election, we have many issues to concur and we want you the American public to be aware of issues we think are close to heart and too important to not bring attention to.

Americaputmeoutofbusiness.com provides our users with politics and media news articles concerning online Canada pharmacies, and the politics of big name drug companies making it impossible for Americans to receive discount prescription drugs online.

Crackdown on prescription drug imports seems fishy
By: Howard Goodman
February 18, 2006
Sun-Sentinel

Joe Belport, is a retired pharmacist who lives in Delray Beach. He still plays golf at age 83, but he's had his share of health problems: bladder cancer, a prostate condition. After 50 years in the business, the guy knows something about safety and savings in prescription drugs. And he saw no harm in ordering the prostate drug Flomax from a Canadian mail-order house earlier this month. He paid a dollar a pill less than half the price at the local drug store. But wait. Isn't it risky to import these drugs, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration contends? "Baloney," Belport says. "The packages are the same as you get here." His shipment, however, never came. It was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. And when Belport learned that, all the idiocy of government policies on prescription drugs hit him in the face. "I became irate, because when it hits home, it's like being slapped," he said. Belport's not the only customer who's been jolted by what appears to be a crackdown on prescription-drug imports. Jeffery Claymore, president of Claymore Pharmacy in Winnipeg, said authorities used to intercept less than 1 percent of Claymore's packages. Since late December, interdictions are up to 3 percent to 5 percent. Last week, two congressmen demanded an explanation for the "unannounced" and "irresponsible" policy change. Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., said the apparent crackdown seems to violate the will of Congress, which for three years has denied the FDA money to block the importation of prescription drugs for personal use, the Los Angeles Times reported. Senior citizens aren't out to defy the law. They're just trying to cope. "I wouldn't get drugs from Canada," Kulik, of Delray Beach, said, "if there was any reasonable way of getting them here." It sure seems odd that almost everything comes from abroad at cut-rate prices. Clothing, groceries, baseballs. But not prescription drugs. Something's ailing.
Febrauary 01, 2006

Soaring Drug Costs
February 24, 2006
Bergen.com

If you think the cost of prescription drugs is too high now, consider what may happen with Avastin, a drug that treats advanced colon cancer and costs more than $4,000 a month. If Avastin receives federal approval for treatment of breast and lung cancer, the cost of the drug for patients with these diseases would double because they would receive twice the dosage of colon cancer patients. That would mean one patient's treatment with Avastin could cost almost $100,000 a year. It's another example of the gross and often cruel unfairness of the current health care system. The impact of such a high price on the insurance community, both private and Medicare and Medicaid, could be devastating. Colon, lung and breast cancers are not rare diseases, and demand for the drug could be steep. The high price is part of an emerging pattern that could make certain life-extending medications off-limits to many Americans. The cost of health care in general will be driven higher.

Report: Medicare Drug Plan Could Waste $80 Billion a Year
By: Robert Longley
February 23, 2006
US Gov Info

Just as the Department of Health and Human Services reports that more than 25 million people have signed up for the Medicare prescription drug plan, a report from the Institute for America's Future alleges that provisions of the plan "inserted at the request of pharmaceutical and HMO interests will cost taxpayers and seniors more than $80 billion a year." In a press release, Institute for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey stated, "In a sell-out to the drug companies, Congress prohibited Medicare from negotiating a better price for seniors. Then it threw in billions of subsides to HMOs, adding another layer of confusion, bureaucracy and costs to the program. America's most vulnerable seniors in need of prescription drugs will pay the cost of this corruption."

AARP's flip-flop?
Febrauary 01, 2006

TPMCafe.com

AARP announced Friday a total reversal from its previous partnership with the GOP on the Medicare Part D benefit. Where the group once supported the pharmaceutical companies' inalienable rights to demand their highest prices, AARP is now calling for the government to negotiate. In 2003, AARP was so confident in the new program that they went so far as to sponsor their own Medicare Part D Plan. What's more, AARP's own study revealed on January 4th that prices in the new prescription drug benefit were lower than buying drugs from Canada. That declaration essentially obliterated efforts to legalize reimportation, paving the way for the realization of pharma's ultimate goals: ensure top prices for its products and kill efforts to reimport its products from abroad. After spending the last five years in partnership with the GOP, AARP is wising up. So in their last legislative agenda planning meeting, AARP leaders decided to do an about face: renew calls to reimport drugs from Canada and push for the government's right to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies.

Canadameds is one of the original and one of the largest International Prescription Service ("IPS") pharmacy operations throughout Canada and the world.

Canadameds is a founder of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA) and the North American Pharmacy Accreditation Commission (NAPAC), and an active member of the Manitoba International Pharmacists Association (MIPA). Each of these organizations requires, and ensures, that its members provide the highest standards of professionalism, safety and ethics, to their customers.

All drugs sold by Canadameds must pass the rigorous standards, demands and tests imposed by Health Canada, the Canadian federal government department that has responsibility for providing safe and affordable prescription medication for Canadians.