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(Message started by: don on Jan 23^rd, 2003, 7:09pm)

Title: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by don on Jan 23^rd, 2003, 7:09pm

The letter requesting an educational grant, such as the one we recieved last year, has been sent.

For those of you who are unaware, GlaxoSmithKline contibuted $2500.00 towards speakers, etc for last years OUCH convention in Canada.

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by catlind on Jan 23^rd, 2003, 9:00pm

Kewlness!!

Thanks Don, that's one more thing I can cross off on my list of convention things to do and people to contact :)

Any idea how long it will take for the grant? I know last years didn't make it in time, but I don't know when it was sent.

Cat

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Charlie on Jan 24^th, 2003, 12:06am

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Linda_Howell on Jan 24^th, 2003, 12:48am

read the same thing Charlie.

hmm so what does this mean? I can't go to Canada anymore where I can get my Imitrex at HALF THE PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah Jeez Glaxco! and I really thought you had people on your mind. Guess it must have only been peoples' money.

Linda who is totally DISGUSTED.

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Not4Hire on Jan 24^th, 2003, 2:02am

Quote:

FUCK: Glaxo Smith Kline.

Read in the Buffalo News that they are threatening to not sell drugs in Canada if they continue to discount to Americans and others.

Unbelievable shit heads

Charlie
Posted by: Linda_Howell Posted on: Jan 23rd, 2003, 11:48pm read the same thing Charlie.

hmm so what does this mean? I can't go to Canada anymore where I can get my Imitrex at HALF THE PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah Jeez Glaxco! and I really thought you had people on your mind. Guess it must have only been peoples' money.

Linda who is totally DISGUSTED.

...see what happens when ya pass on GOOD news?

STFUD!

...DON....i hope yer request was a bit less terse/succinct than yer post........

and i hope those speakers (@ 400watts/channel) sound good on THE YACHT ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by BobG on Jan 24^th, 2003, 4:30am

Let's see if I have this right.

Step 1. GlaxoSmithKline manufactures a product and sells it to a Canadian pharmacy and earns a large profit.

Step 2. The product is no longer the property of GlaxoSmithKline but the property of the Canadian pharmacy. The Canadian pharmacy raises the price to make a large profit by selling it to Americans.

Step 3. The product is now the property of the American. He/she swallows the product and it is gone.

Step 4. The American now has to go back to the Canadian pharmacy.

Step 5. Go back to Step 1.

Make a product that can only be used once, charge a high price for it, make a huge profit. Repeat over and over and over, X's thousands of people in pain. Then whine that your own customers don't sell your product (that you no longer own) at a tremendous mark-up.

Sounds like the American way to me. Good old Capitalism at it's best.

Charlie's right. >:(

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Ann on Jan 24^th, 2003, 8:06am

Great...so if they stop selling it here in Canada, I'm going to have to go across the border where my money is worth nothing to buy my meds? and of course my insurance company will no longer cover those meds cause they were illegally obtained. Sounds like fun! Sounds very humane.... hmmmmm better start stocking up!

hugs
Ann

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by SommelierCH on Jan 24^th, 2003, 8:13am

Uhh…….Thank you GlaxoSmithKline for your contribution last year and for your anticipated contribution this year.

GlaxoSmithKline recognizes the clusterheads, THAT, will eventually affect the insurance companies. No one will be interested in Cluster Headaches until they can make money off of us. They can’t make money off of us until we exist.

Join OUCH and BE COUNTED (It’s Free),

David J.

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Stampertje on Jan 24^th, 2003, 8:38am

My girlfriend works in a pharmacy here in Holland. She told my once that the price of an Imitrex box (has two shots in it) is 60 gulden. This is +/- 27,= Euro, so just about the same in American dollars. :-/

Maybe we can send it to you guy's... ;D

Seriously, this sucks!!! It can't understand that people want to make as much money as possible of needing people.

PFDAN,

Rik

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Ueli on Jan 24^th, 2003, 8:56am

Oh yeah, Pharma companies only count with big numbers.

Here some of the 2002 results from Novartis:
Gross turnover: 32.41 billion CHF (23.82 billion $)
[from pharmaceuticals alone: 20.18 GCHF (14.83 G$)]

Net profit: 7.31 GCHF (5.37 G$), that's a mere 22.6% of the turnover :o

Daniel Vasella, the big boss of Novartis, got only 3 million CHF (2.2 million $) in cash, for the rest of his "salary" of 20.1 million CHF (14.8 million $) he had to make do with company stock.

When ask in a TV interview if his salary wasn't a bit on the high side, Vasella said, no he was deserving it to the last cent.

No wonder Novartis does not depend on making a few bucks more from clusterheads and therefore dropped a small fry like Sansert/Deseril....

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Bob P on Jan 24^th, 2003, 9:45am

Good work Don. I don't particularly care who they are, OUCH will take their money.

Cat - took about 6 months last year to receive the grant. The guy did mention that we could perhaps make it an annual thing so lets hope they continue to come through.

I look at it this way, the money Glaxo is giving to OUCH is profit they took from the meegrainers. Feels a lot better that way.

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by don on Jan 24^th, 2003, 1:11pm

Quote:

...see what happens when ya pass on GOOD news?

I'll say! I guess the point of the post was missed?

GlaxoSmithKline has contributed $2500 in the past, they may donate again to help us

Seems like an inroad to me.

If a conscencous says they are evil, I will politely decline any further grants from them.

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by Charlie on Jan 24^th, 2003, 7:05pm

No doubt these guys operate like our stupid government. Different sections of this corporate behemoth have no idea what the other does. ie: contributions/litigations. The exploration of restricting sales to discounters idea though, comes from the top.

The thing is, this kind of shit is everywhere. The robber barrons are having a field day. Wouldn't be nice if there were some clusterheads among these corporate felons.......

Charlie

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by woobie on Jan 24^th, 2003, 7:42pm

on 01/24/03 at 13:11:40, don wrote:

If a conscencous says they are evil, I will politely decline any further grants from them.

Hey Bob,
I know that I am not important...and my opinion prolly doesn't count, but I say....

TAKE ALL THE MONEY THEY"RE GONNA GIVE...
they take enough of ours.

Tina :-*

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by don on Jan 25^th, 2003, 9:53am

Yeah Boob !

Title: Re: GlaxoSmithKline grant
Post by jonny on Jan 25^th, 2003, 12:30pm

Boob, already has skimmed his share of OUCH money (I got pics).

Its your turn DON NIXON ;D

Just shut the fuck up and noone will be the wiser (ill meet ya at the boat)
;D

.................jonny :D