E-drug: Parallel re-importation of drugs into USA (cont'd)
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Prof. Urquhart offers a second potential reason. Another not
mutually exclusive possibility is "price discrimination" whereby
pricing is determined to some extent by what the market will bear.
While many e-druggers might think perish the thought, the fact is
price discrimination is a common practice in many businesses
including health and medicine. Think of the differential price of an
airline ticket: that bought at the last minute for a mid week
excursion can be five times the price of that booked two weeks in
advance with a Saturday stay.
Jeffrey W. Mecaskey
Program Director
International Trachoma Initiative
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Phone:+1(212)490 6460
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Cell:+1(917)769 7324
email: mecaskey@trachoma.org
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