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Drug Importation Task Force Completes Its Listening Sessions

By Janice G. Inman
June 01, 2004

Over the past few months, the Task Force on Drug Importation has held its so-called “listening sessions” with groups and individuals that would be impacted by drug importation, should it be legalized. At the meetings, U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona served as the chairman over a panel of representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as from other departments of the federal government with an interest in drug importation issues (see sidebar on page 5). The task force's members are being asked to offer recommendations to Health and Human Services' Secretary Tommy Thompson by December 2004 concerning how best to address key questions posed by Congress as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug Act, such as how drugs can safely be imported, what the impact of such imports would be on incentives to drug research and development, and how much the policing of imports would cost the government.

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