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Azar’s political play with drug importation

Editor’s Commentary: Why the HHS drug importation plan is a bad idea

July 23, 2018 10:03 PM UTC

The drug importation policy announced by Alex Azar last week is a political stunt, aimed at generating headlines at a time when the HHS secretary seems desperate to demonstrate to Donald Trump and the media that he’s fulfilling the president’s pledges to lower drug prices.

In fact, as Azar knows, importation will have a negligible effect on access to drugs. ...