[Pharm-policy] NYT: Parallel Imports likely to be approved in USA

[James Love]

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/27/politics/27DRUG.html


         Accord Likely on Measure Allowing Drug Imports

         By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and ROBERT PEAR

               WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - A proposal to allow imports of
low-priced prescription drugs won support from House Republican leaders
today, making it all but certain that Congress and President Clinton
could eventually agree on the legislation. 

         Although the pharmaceutical industry has lobbied furiously
against the measure, the House Republican leaders announced that they
would approve the Senate-passed version of the bill, which Mr. Clinton
also supports. Their decision to make the bill a priority, just six
weeks before the elections, suggests how potent the cost of prescription
drugs has become as a political issue.

         "We are comfortable with the Senate bill," Representative Dick
Armey of Texas, the majority leader, said today.

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