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Senate Votes Down Amendment to Allow Drug Reimportation

By Philip Klein on 12.15.09 @ 7:04PM

The Senate has just defeated an amendment offered by Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed for reimportation of prescription drugs, on a 51 to 48 vote. Sixty votes were required for adoption.

The vote was not along partisan lines, with conservatives including Sens. Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn voting for it, and Democrats such as Max Baucus voting against it.

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Roy| 12.16.09 @ 9:52AM

It's kind of an interesting question. If we allowed it then immediately Canadian pharmacies would get cleaned out by people "reimporting" the drugs to the US. Then Canada's price controls would be CANADA's problem. They'd have to either scrap them or jack up the price. But in the meantime what would happen to pharmaceutical innovation? Hmm. Not surprised it didn't go completely along party lines.