Col­orado to seek FDA ap­proval by fall on Cana­di­an drug im­ports

While Flori­da Gov. Ron De­San­tis has been pub­licly feud­ing with the FDA af­ter ac­cus­ing the fed­er­al agency of drag­ging its feet on ap­prov­ing the state’s drug im­port plan, Col­orado is an­nounc­ing its own part­ner­ship with a hand­ful of com­pa­nies, in­clud­ing a Cana­di­an sub­sidiary, in an at­tempt to bring down drug prices.

The state qui­et­ly an­nounced in mid-Au­gust that it is putting to­geth­er an ap­pli­ca­tion to the FDA for a part­ner­ship with three com­pa­nies to im­port low­er-priced med­i­cines ap­proved in Cana­da in­to the US. Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment, the pro­gram is es­ti­mat­ed to save Col­oradans 60% on pre­scrip­tion med­i­cines, if US reg­u­la­tors sign off on it.

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