USA TODAY - End to ban on reimported drugs is good medicine
Today’s debate: High prescription costs
Our view: Firms sell products to other countries for much less. That’s unfair.
The state of Illinois is about to become a federal lawbreaker — and proud of it.
Last week, it announced that in September it will help residents buy medicine from pre-screened pharmacies in Canada and Europe. That violates a ban against reimporting U.S.-made drugs from other countries. But when a prescription drug for heartburn, Aciphex, costs more than twice as much in the USA as it does in Ireland, Illinois figures being a scofflaw is worth it.
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Illinois represents the most brazen defiance to date of the federal ban, imposed because of safety concerns about reimported medicines. Its action shows how far politicians and consumers will go to cope with sky-high prescription drug bills at home. The steep difference in costs explains why seniors ride buses to Canada …
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