The Administration is looking at importation to reduce the cost of prescription costs, but is it possible to lower costs without sacrificing safety? healthcare policy
. This prohibition was authored by the former long-time Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, John Dingell , and signed into law by President Reagan. While the security of the supply chain for distributing prescription drugs from manufacturers to patients has improved since then, counterfeit medicines remain a well-documented global problem.
The Administration’s proposal could create a curious confluence of requirements for the FDA where it will have to assure the safety of such pilots before they start but also monitor safety along the way. For example, pilot organizations must have adverse event reporting systems and “the Secretary would have broad discretion to terminate a demonstration project if the continuation could pose additional risk to public health and safety.
Lowering patients’ costs for medicines is an important objective, and if such pathways move forward, how the costs paid by patients for imported medicines would interact with their health insurance needs to be clarified.
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