President Trump has promised that the plan his administration rolled out Wednesday to bring in cheaper prescription drugs from Canada will immediately lower medication costs. Experts say the plan won’t work — and many write it off as a political stunt
President Donald Trump has promised that the plan his administration rolled out Wednesday to bring in cheaper prescription drugs from Canada will immediately lower medication costs. Experts say the plan won’t work — and many write it off as a political stunt.
Under the proposal, importers would need the cooperation of the Canadian government and the drug industry, both of which oppose it. Importers would have to take many expensive and complicated steps to prove to the FDA that importation wouldn’t harm Americans, and to weave through complex regulations and the intricacies of the U.S. health delivery system.
“If you put Canadian drugs on a dogsled and pointed it in the direction of Florida, the dogs would arrive long before any drugs through this regulatory proposal,” wrote Chris Meekins, a former Trump administration HHS official who now tracks the drug industry for the financial analyst Raymond James.The drug industry could easily gum up the works of any importation plan.
The proposed rule requires importers to demonstrate their product is the same as what’s available in the U.S. But importers would need the drug’s manufacturer to do the testing or give them materials for the tests. Importers also would need permission from drug companies to use their FDA-approved labels. FDA could try to force industry to cooperate, but industry might legally challenge such orders. Some information on a drug’s label could be subject to patent protections.
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