STAT January 5, 2024
John Wilkerson

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has approved Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to import a limited set of brand drugs from Canada, paving the way for other states to follow suit and setting up a fight to take credit for the drug-price-lowering measure in the race for president.

The approval by the Food and Drug Administration is a breakthrough in a decades-long debate over whether to allow drug imports. Congress passed a law in 2003 to let wholesalers and pharmacists import Canadian drugs, but only if the FDA approved drug importation as safe, and until now the agency had refused to make that determination.

In November 2020, the Trump administration published a regulation that allows states to propose import plans....

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