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Designing A Prescription Drug Benefit

PROLOGUE: Recently both the governor of Illinois and the mayor of New York City, individually, took the bold step of announcing serious consideration of plans to reimport from Canada prescription drugs manufactured by U.S. companies but available in Canada at deeply discounted prices, as a means of trimming health care costs. This was done amid staunch opposition by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because of presumed safety concerns. A report commissioned by Gov. Rod Blagojevich (a Democrat) found that the State of Illinois could save upwards of $56.5 million annually on prescription drugs for state employees and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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