Importation will not make drugs more affordable for Americans. It puts their safety — and future innovation — at risk. In this case, the best strategy is one that should come naturally to the Trump administration: Buy American.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just announced plans to help states and Indian tribes purchase certain prescription drugs from Canada, where brand-name medicines tend to be cheaper because the government caps their price. The new guidance is part of a larger Trump administration effort to cut drug prices for Americans.
But states should think twice before opening their borders to foreign drugs. Aside from being impractical, the new importation strategy would leave America’s drug supply vulnerable to dangerous counterfeit medicines from abroad.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Cheap Drugs from Canada Can’t Make America Healthy
Sally C. Pipes
Importation will not make drugs more affordable for Americans. It puts their safety — and future innovation — at risk. In this case, the best strategy is one that should come naturally to the Trump administration: Buy American.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just announced plans to help states and Indian tribes purchase certain prescription drugs from Canada, where brand-name medicines tend to be cheaper because the government caps their price. The new guidance is part of a larger Trump administration effort to cut drug prices for Americans.
But states should think twice before opening their borders to foreign drugs. Aside from being impractical, the new importation strategy would leave America’s drug supply vulnerable to dangerous counterfeit medicines from abroad.
Read the Orlando Sentinel op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.