{"id":693,"date":"2024-01-05T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/florida-to-import-canadian-prescription-drugs-under-new-program\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:03:08","slug":"florida-to-import-canadian-prescription-drugs-under-new-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/florida-to-import-canadian-prescription-drugs-under-new-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to import Canadian prescription drugs under new program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State will be first to import drugs under federal program that Florida governor says could save consumers $150m in first year<\/p>\n<p>A public health policy that won rare backing from both the Biden and Trump administrations looks ready to open a flow of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada to Florida, ending a decades-long block on the importation of certain pharmaceuticals to the US.<\/p>\n<p>The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the state approval under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/about-fda\/reports\/importation-program-under-section-804-fdc-act#:~:text=FDA%20has%20developed%20a%20pathway,to%20public%20health%20and%20safety.\">drugs importation program<\/a> that seeks to lower the cost of medicines for US consumers without imposing additional risks to their health or safety.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/jan\/05\/florida-prescription-drugs-import-canada-lower-price-medicine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State will be first to import drugs under federal program that Florida governor says could save consumers $150m in first year A public health policy that won rare backing from both the Biden and Trump administrations looks ready to open a flow of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada to Florida, ending a decades-long block on &#8230; <a title=\"Florida to import Canadian prescription drugs under new program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/florida-to-import-canadian-prescription-drugs-under-new-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida to import Canadian prescription drugs under new program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}