I got cuffed about a good bit when I wrote that Ron Paul’s support for drug reimportation was wrongheaded, but it appears that state-level experiments with this idea have vindicated my position. According to Kimberley Strassel’s recent WSJ piece:
Three years ago, grandstanding governors and mayors vowed to break federal law and set up state-run drug import programs, giving millions of citizens the “opportunity” to buy cheap Canadian drugs … Today, most state-import programs are on life support, while some have closed completely … the overwhelming majority of Americans appear to have little use for import programs that offer few drugs at long wait times, under suspect safety conditions and with minimal savings.
If their history is any guide, the advocates of reimportation will not allow mere facts to impede their crusade to foist this goofy scheme on a dubious public. And this is unfortunate because it is a bad idea in theory as well as practice.
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