Download or read book Importation of Prescription Drugs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining Prescription Drug Importation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription drugs strategic framework would promote accountability and enhance efforts to enforce the prohibitions on personal importation report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Options for Safe and Effective Prescription Drug Importation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Importation of Prescription Drugs written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Importation of prescription drugs: hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on examining prescription drug reimportation, focusing on efforts to reduce drug costs, patient safety concerns, recent state action, fraudulent and counterfeit drugs, an international comparison of rising prescription
Download or read book Report on Prescription Drug Importation written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Drug Importation and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription drugs enhanced efforts and better agency coordination needed to address illegal importation testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Energy and Commerce U S House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S 334 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health written by Terri Weber and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of prescription drugs currently is estimated to be about 10 percent of national health expenditures and is projected to consume an increasingly larger portion of health care expenditures through the remainder of this decade. Despite the uncertain legal ramifications, drug importation continues to be one of the means used by some United States citizens and state and local governments to offset the growth in prescription drug costs. This briefing paper examines the official and informal policies of the Federal Drug Administration regarding drug importation and recent federal attempts to address the issue of the importation of prescription drugs. It also summarizes the current activity of those state and local governments that have chosen to proceed with drug importation and summarizes reimportation activities in Kansas during calendar year 2006.
Download or read book Examining the Implications of Drug Importation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drug Importation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription Drug Importation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Importing Prescription Drugs written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can purchases from abroad lower the cost of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers? Current law allows pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs from Canada commercially, and codifies the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) current practice of allowing imports of prescription drugs by individuals under certain defined circumstances. There is, however, one proviso. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) must first certify that the drugs to be imported under the program would "pose no additional risk to the public's health and safety; and result in a significant reduction in the cost of covered products to the American consumer" -- a step no Secretary has been willing to take. FDA has argued that with the likely exponential increase in imports -- right now it tolerates some imports for personal use -- it is impossible to monitor and guarantee that these drugs would be safe. Meanwhile, some states and municipalities, looking at ways to control their expenditures for prescription drugs, have created websites to direct U.S. consumers to Canadian sources; and several state Governors have proposed pilot import programs. This issue is addressed in elements of three pairs of pending bills: S. 109 (introduced by Senator Vitter) and H.R. 328 (introduced by Representative Gutknecht); S. 184 (introduced by Senator Gregg) and H.R. 753 (introduced by Representative Bradley); and S. 334 (introduced by Senator Dorgan) and H.R. 700 (introduced by Representative Emerson). All would allow commercial and personaluse imports and replace the need for HHS Secretary certification with different ways to assure safety and effectiveness, among them requiring tamper-resistant and anticounterfeit packaging; inspecting samples of imported drugs; requiring registration of importers, exporters, and Internet pharmacies; and enforcing extensive chain-ofcustody monitoring and documentation. They also present different approaches for influencing industry response. Opponents of the legislation raise concerns about safety, added costs, the feasibility of imports as a long-term solution to high domestic prices, and whether, beyond the short term, U.S. consumers would pay less for their prescription drugs. Other points of contention include issues of patent law and international trade agreements. The report examines these issues, spells out how they are treated from bill to bill, and refers to alternatives to importation to ease the burden of prescription drug costs on consumers: use of generics and disease management techniques; research and development incentives to industry; studying the drugs' comparative effectiveness and then judiciously applying the findings in benefit package and prescribing decisions; and assuming some of the consumers' cost.
Download or read book Canadian Prescription Drug Importation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Importing Prescription Drugs written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, American consumers, particularly the elderly and uninsured, have discovered they often pay a lot more for pharmaceuticals than citizens in other countries. As prescription drug prices continue to rise, more patients are turning to the Internet, or traveling outside the county, to find cheaper prescription drugs. Under current law, however, only drug companies can import pharmaceuticals into the United States. Despite this legal restriction, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has for years allowed patients to bring a 90-day supply of prescription medications into the country under its so-called "personal use" import policy. In 2000, the 106th Congress passed the Medicine Equity and Drug Safety (MEDS) Act, legislation that would have allowed pharmacists and drug wholesalers to import less costly FDA-approved drugs from other countries. However, Congress stipulated that the Act could not be implemented unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) could first guarantee that all drugs imported under the program would be safe and offer significant cost savings for consumers. In time, both the former and current Secretaries said these conditions could not be met, and declined to implement the law. Congress is considering several ways to increase the supply of less costly prescription drugs for consumers, in particular codifying FDA's "personal use" import policy, and creating a program that would let pharmacists and drug wholesalers import drugs commercially. On July 31, 2002, the Senate passed the Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act (S. 812), legislation to speed-up the approval of less costly generic drugs. The bill included the text of the Prescription Drug Price Parity for Americans Act (S. 2244), an amendment offered by Senator Dorgan, that would allow people to bring a 90-day supply of prescription drugs into the country for personal use from registered Canadian pharmacies, and simultaneously create a commercial import program, similar to the MEDS Act, that would let licensed pharmacists and drug wholesalers import FDA-approved prescription drugs from Canada. The Senate also agreed to an amendment sponsored by Senator Cochran that would require the Secretary of HHS to first certify to Congress that all imported drugs would be safe and offer significant cost savings for consumers, the same two contingencies that kept the MEDS Act from being implemented in 2000. H.R. 4614, a bill similar to the Dorgan amendment is currently pending in the House. Supporters of the various drug import proposals are urging Congress to pass legislation that will codify FDA's personal use import policy, making it easier for patients to bring cheaper prescription drugs into the country, and at the same time establish a program allowing pharmacists and drug wholesalers to import drugs commercially from Canada. Opponents, on the other hand, argue that these proposals could weaken existing import laws and make it easier for unsafe or counterfeit drugs to enter the country. While the Dorgan/Sanders bills would mandate authenticity testing to safeguard against this, the cost of testing would likely be passed on to consumers, and critics question whether there would be a noticeable reduction in the price of prescription drugs.
Download or read book Prescription Drug Importation and Internet Sales written by Vanessa K. Burrows and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
