Drug Importation
Business & Economics
The Bizarre World of Drug Pricing
There is no shortage of bad ideas when it comes to the pharmaceutical market. One such proposal would allow drugs to be imported directly from other countries, such as Canada. Then there is the Trump Administration’s proposal that would effectively adopt foreign price controls on Medicare Part B drugs by ...
Drug Importation
Sally Pipes Featured in Newsmax Article on Dangers of Prescription Drug Importation
Cheaper Prescription Drugs Through Deregulation, Not Importation By Jared Whitley Healthcare is frequently a sore spot for the United States in international comparisons. We conservatives like to insist that “America is No. 1,” and when leftists want to take the wind out of our sails, the first thing they point ...
Drug Importation
Sally Pipes in Health Care News Article on Drug Imports
Trump Administration Considers Allowing Some Drug Imports By Christopher Talgo U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a working group to weigh the risks and rewards of drug importation, which is currently banned in the United States. The ...
Commentary
Canadian Pharmacy Scandal Reveals The Dangers of Drug Importation
A U.S. district court in Montana just imposed a $34 million fine on Canada Drugs, an online pharmacy charged with selling counterfeit medications to unsuspecting Americans. Some of the drugs contained no active ingredients. Canada Drugs isn’t the only online pharmacy that puts patients’ lives in serious jeopardy. The National ...
Commentary
Just Say No to Drug Imports
A U.S. district court in Montana just imposed a $34 million fine on Canada Drugs, an online pharmacy charged with selling counterfeit medications to unsuspecting Americans. Some of the drugs contained no active ingredients. Canada Drugs isn’t the only online pharmacy that puts patients’ lives in serious jeopardy. The National Association ...
Blog
There’s Plenty To Like About Trump’s HHS Pick, Alex Azar
President Trump’s nomination of Alex Azar for secretary of Health and Human Services is encouraging news for free-market health reformers. Azar possesses precisely the combination of legal acumen, bureaucratic savvy, management experience dealing with a large workforce, and private-sector experience required to eliminate those parts of Obamacare that can be accomplished through ...
Business & Economics
Drug Importation Will Not Improve Health Care Affordability
The growing problem of health care affordability requires prompt and effective policy solutions. However, just as the wrong medical diagnosis will not cure a patient, and may make the patient even sicker, the wrong policy solution will not address the U.S. health care affordability problem, and may even worsen the ...
Commentary
Drug Importation Won’t Save Dollars Or Lives
A recent oped in The Hill by MedShadow Foundation founder Suzanne Robotti claims that permitting Americans to import prescription drugs from Canada would save dollars and lives. It would do neither. Prescription drug importation has several notable proponents, like Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Amy Kobuchar (D-Minn.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ...
Commentary
The New Senate’s Top Priority: Destroying Drug Innovation?
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar just introduced a federal budget amendment that would legalize the importation of foreign prescription drugs. This particular policy change has long topped Democrats’ health care wish list, but shockingly, they might find support across the aisle this year, as President-elect Trump has spoken glowingly of importation. ...
Business & Economics
Drug Importation Is Not The Answer
The imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is garnering most of the health care headlines, and rightly so. But, the focus on Obamacare should not overshadow other health care modifications that may be considered during the 115th Congress. Paramount among these proposals is the issue of drug ...
The Bizarre World of Drug Pricing
There is no shortage of bad ideas when it comes to the pharmaceutical market. One such proposal would allow drugs to be imported directly from other countries, such as Canada. Then there is the Trump Administration’s proposal that would effectively adopt foreign price controls on Medicare Part B drugs by ...
Sally Pipes Featured in Newsmax Article on Dangers of Prescription Drug Importation
Cheaper Prescription Drugs Through Deregulation, Not Importation By Jared Whitley Healthcare is frequently a sore spot for the United States in international comparisons. We conservatives like to insist that “America is No. 1,” and when leftists want to take the wind out of our sails, the first thing they point ...
Sally Pipes in Health Care News Article on Drug Imports
Trump Administration Considers Allowing Some Drug Imports By Christopher Talgo U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a working group to weigh the risks and rewards of drug importation, which is currently banned in the United States. The ...
Canadian Pharmacy Scandal Reveals The Dangers of Drug Importation
A U.S. district court in Montana just imposed a $34 million fine on Canada Drugs, an online pharmacy charged with selling counterfeit medications to unsuspecting Americans. Some of the drugs contained no active ingredients. Canada Drugs isn’t the only online pharmacy that puts patients’ lives in serious jeopardy. The National ...
Just Say No to Drug Imports
A U.S. district court in Montana just imposed a $34 million fine on Canada Drugs, an online pharmacy charged with selling counterfeit medications to unsuspecting Americans. Some of the drugs contained no active ingredients. Canada Drugs isn’t the only online pharmacy that puts patients’ lives in serious jeopardy. The National Association ...
There’s Plenty To Like About Trump’s HHS Pick, Alex Azar
President Trump’s nomination of Alex Azar for secretary of Health and Human Services is encouraging news for free-market health reformers. Azar possesses precisely the combination of legal acumen, bureaucratic savvy, management experience dealing with a large workforce, and private-sector experience required to eliminate those parts of Obamacare that can be accomplished through ...
Drug Importation Will Not Improve Health Care Affordability
The growing problem of health care affordability requires prompt and effective policy solutions. However, just as the wrong medical diagnosis will not cure a patient, and may make the patient even sicker, the wrong policy solution will not address the U.S. health care affordability problem, and may even worsen the ...
Drug Importation Won’t Save Dollars Or Lives
A recent oped in The Hill by MedShadow Foundation founder Suzanne Robotti claims that permitting Americans to import prescription drugs from Canada would save dollars and lives. It would do neither. Prescription drug importation has several notable proponents, like Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Amy Kobuchar (D-Minn.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ...
The New Senate’s Top Priority: Destroying Drug Innovation?
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar just introduced a federal budget amendment that would legalize the importation of foreign prescription drugs. This particular policy change has long topped Democrats’ health care wish list, but shockingly, they might find support across the aisle this year, as President-elect Trump has spoken glowingly of importation. ...
Drug Importation Is Not The Answer
The imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is garnering most of the health care headlines, and rightly so. But, the focus on Obamacare should not overshadow other health care modifications that may be considered during the 115th Congress. Paramount among these proposals is the issue of drug ...
