Flori­da Gov. De­San­tis hints at su­ing FDA over stalled Cana­di­an drug im­port plan

While pledg­ing to save “hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars” by al­low­ing cheap­er Cana­di­an im­ports of “the same drugs,” Flori­da Gov. Ron De­San­tis on Fri­day hint­ed at po­ten­tial­ly tak­ing FDA to court over his state’s plan seek­ing to jump­start this new stream of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

“We may even end up in lit­i­ga­tion over this,” De­San­tis said at a press con­fer­ence ahead of sign­ing an ex­ec­u­tive or­der on PBMs, while lament­ing that the FDA un­der Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has not done any­thing yet to ap­prove Flori­da’s re­quest from No­vem­ber 2020 and oth­er state re­quests too.

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