A reason why drug importation isn’t working:
Perhaps an even bigger point is that huge numbers of Americans don’t even pay for their drugs, but rather farm out their bills to an insurer. That’s even more the case now that seniors are getting their drugs through Medicare. Joseph Bruno, the former Republican minority leader in Maine’s legislature and now full-time CEO of a chain of pharmacies in that state, points out that 94.5% of his customers get prescriptions paid by a third party and so aren’t price-sensitive.
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