Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. Despite enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, some ...

Importation of relatively inexpensive medications from foreign markets is a long-anticipated program for reducing drug costs that is now finally taking shape. But cost concerns have fanned persistent ...

Three states — Vermont, Florida, and Colorado — recently passed laws that legalize the importation of prescription drugs. Other states are considering similar legislation. Legislators in those states ...

The safety of the supply chain for pharmaceuticals in the United States must be built with solid links. That hasn’t always been the case, which is why the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) was ...

Yesterday, the Trump Administration released a final rule aiming to permit states or other specific actors to establish programs to import prescription drugs from Canada. If it is not blocked in court ...

Buying medicines over the web can be risky, but purchasing prescriptions from credentialed online pharmacies can be done safely. Price controls in Canada and Europe allow their medicines to be far ...

For years, Americans have enviously eyed low drug prices just over the border in Canada, where strict price controls prevail as part of a socialized national healthcare system. Canadian drugs are ...

Late last month, the Trump administration released a plan that would green-light the importation of certain drugs from Canada and potentially other foreign countries. The administration's proposal ...

The Trump administration announced plans to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada. But the plan is just the first step and is likely to face challenges. The Trump administration's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "Prescription drug importation offers a false promise of ...