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Article: Slashing the high cost of prescription drugs.(As We SEE IT)(Report)
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- Life Extension
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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There has never been an organization that has battled high drug prices more aggressively than the Life Extension Foundation.
Back in the early 1980s, Life Extension was the first to suggest that Americans buy their drugs from countries where these same medications cost a fraction of the price. We went on national TV talk shows, ran full-page newspaper ads, and even set up the FDA Museum to expose how Americans were being defrauded by a monopolistic drug cartel protected by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA retaliated by raiding our facilities, seizing our property, and intimidating everyone with whom we interacted, including a radio station ...