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Biden “Promoting Competition” Executive Order Falls In Behind Drug Importation

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The Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to submit to the White House, by August 23, a plan to “combat excessive pricing of prescription drugs and enhance domestic pharmaceutical supply chains, to reduce pries paid by the Federal Government for such drugs, and to address the recurrent problem of price gouging.”

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FDA Approves First State Drug Importation Program Under 20-Year-Old Statute, But High Hurdles Remain

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After its enactment in 2003, successive administrations thwarted its implementation by declining to certify to Congress that importation will pose no additional risk to public health and safety and will result in a significant reduction in cost to American consumers, as the statute requires.