[Med-privacy] Re: [Ip-health] RFID Labels On Prescription Drug Bottles

[Jeff Williams]

Dean and all,

  I, nor most of our members could not agree with your remarks more.
Many times I have read/heard very similar remarks/comments along
these same lines..  And in some many instances patents, are more
of an impact on drug prices than RFID chips in labels can possibly
address in effecting lowering cost of drugs sold.  I also cannot even
see clearly how RFID chips in labels would have a significant impact
or curtailing the counterfeit drug market either as copied RFID chips
are too easily produced and a very low price...

Dean Baker wrote:

> If economists were ever honest, they would all be jumping up and down
> yelling about this
> is yet another problem with patent protection. No one would be
> counterfeiting drugs if they
> sold at generic prices. The incentive to counterfeit is a direct result
> of patent protected prices.
>
> Dean Baker
>
> Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> >All,
> >
> > As if perscription drugs were not already overpriced...
> >
> >and
> >
> >  Could this be an unecessary intrusion into a persons medical
> >privacy?  Seems to me anyway that such is at least a possibility...
> >
> > FYI,
> >"The New York Times is reporting that the Food and Drug
> >Administration and several major drug makers are expected to announce an
> >
> >agreement Monday to put [1]tiny radio antennas on the labels of millions
> >
> >of medicine bottles to combat counterfeiting and fraud. RFID labels
> >provide a unique identifier that is almost impossible to copy. When
> >pharmacists receive delivery, they should be able to pass a wand over
> >the
> >bottles and, through an online database, check the history of each. Each
> >
> >label costs 20 to 50 cents."
> >
> >See:  http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/health/15drug.html
> >
> >Regards,
> >--
> >Jeffrey A. Williams
> >Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
    Pierre Abelard

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827