A new law could open the door to Cal­i­for­ni­a's own drug pipeline. The state has its sights set on in­sulin first

In a na­tion­wide first, Cal­i­for­nia is cre­at­ing a path­way that could al­low the state gov­ern­ment to pro­duce and dis­trib­ute its own gener­ic drugs.

Gov. Gavin New­som signed in­to law Mon­day a plan that di­rects the state’s Health and Hu­man Ser­vices Agency to look at po­ten­tial part­ner­ships with drug­mak­ers to try to in­crease ac­cess to af­ford­able med­i­cines. Cal­i­for­nia won’t be de­vel­op­ing the drugs them­selves, but rather they would at­tempt to dis­trib­ute ones with ex­pired patents that re­ceived FDA ap­proval.

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