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Home >  Events >  Unrestricted Prescription-Drug Importation from Canada and Elsewhere
Unrestricted Prescription-Drug Importation from Canada and Elsewhere
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The Debate Over Safety and Economics
Start:  Thursday, October 2, 2003  9:00 AM
End:  Thursday, October 2, 2003  11:00 AM
Location:  Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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An unlikely coalition of Democrats and Republicans wants to undo a 1988 law prohibiting importation of prescription drugs from foreign nations without FDA safeguards. Their goal is to force U.S. drug prices down to those in price-controlled nations such as Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. Is this the free market at work or is this just a backdoor to price controls in the United States? What are the implications for R&D, which is supported mainly by American consumers but the fruits of which are distributed among all the wealthy nations of the world? These questions and others will be discussed by a panel of legislators, regulators, and scholars.

 

8:45 a.m.

Registration

 

 

 

9:00

Panelists:

John E. Calfee, AEI

 

 

David Gratzer, M.D., Center for Medical Progress, Manhattan Institute

 

 

Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn.)

 

 

Roger Pilon, Cato Institute

 

 

 

 

Moderator:

Joseph Antos, AEI

   

11:00

Adjournment


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American Enterprise Institute
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