Show From Our Exchange Desk high cost of drugs From The Grand Junction Daily Dally Sentinel Some interesting information is being uncovered by the Senate trust Anti-trust and Monopoly Subcommittee headed by Senator Kefauver For the past five months it has been gathering data on drug prices in this country and within a few weeks hopes to begin public hearings Apparently the recent Federal Trade Trado Commission queries into costs of stirred up a hornets hornet's nest Six indictments on price fixing char charges es do not seem to have solved the problem to the satisfaction of the tho Senator from Tenessee 1 Through the State Department some figures have been compiled which purport to show how that consumer costs of drugs druga in this country are arc on the average farin far farIn farin in excess of the cost for similar drugs in other nations even though the same manufacturer Is involved For Instance In Venezuela one brand of vitamin tablets tab tab- Jets lets costs per while the same brand in the U.S. U.S. U U. S. S costs The manufacturer who sells a dozen Ju aspirin tablets In England for far 1 cent charges Americans 25 cents for them Russians can buy anti anU made In America for 45 cents while in this country the same drug costs No wonder thinks they can bury us Just how ow or why with shipping costs added the same drugs should be so much cheaper in foreign lands than in the country of origin Is ia hard ham to understand The American public has hag been pretty gullible about the high cost post of wonder drugs rugs but t this ls Is a situation which certainly needs Investigation |