{"id":1916322,"date":"2023-04-18T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-passes-bill-to-import-prescription-drugs-from-canada\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:28:07","slug":"texas-house-passes-bill-to-import-prescription-drugs-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-passes-bill-to-import-prescription-drugs-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to Trade Prescription Drugs from Canada is Passed by the Texas House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-house-passes-bill-to-import-prescription-drugs-from-canada%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0418\/f6b8374a-4b88-4fbf-a602-b790f93f15fd\/audio.mp3?length=2950317&#038;duration=246\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan proposal put forth by the Texas House could spare Texans up to 70 % on the price of some frequently prescribed prescribed medications.<\/p>\n<p>State Representative James Talarico ( D ), who wrote House Bill 25, would establish a program to import specific medications from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico stated in a Twitter tweet on April 12 that&#8221; Texans pay TWICE as much as Canadians for their prescribed drugs.&#8221; However, that&#8217;s&#8217;s about to alter. My proposal to buy inexpensive prescription medicines from Canada was simply passed by the Texas House.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved the proposed test with a nearly unanimous ballot of 144 to 1, with four abstaining. Democrat representatives James Frank, Dustin Burrows, Stephanie Klick, and Democrat representatives Toni Rose co-authored the document.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; In order to save lives in our state, the purpose of this act is to successfully buy those inexpensive prescription drugs from Canada. In an interview on WFAA&#8217;s&#8217;s Inside Texas Politics on Sunday, Talarico stated that we could expect to save between 60 and 70 percent on the cost of frequently prescribed medications like cancer, blood pressure, and asthma medications \u2014 medication that people need for themselves and their families.<\/p>\n<p>According to Talarico, Democratic state senator Sen. Charles Perry is in charge of the policy, which is anticipated to complete with a majority of bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5201615\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/17\/id5201615-Talarico-Twitter-1200x1200.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a>On April 12, 2023, Texas State Representative James Talarico( D) will discuss his legislation allowing pharmacies to buy Canadian prescribing medications. ( Courtesy of James Talarico&#8217;s&#8217;s Office )<\/figure>\n<h2>Trump &#8211; Years Act Set the Stage<\/h2>\n<p>Texas hopes to visit a select group of states that are attempting to lower consumer drug costs by importing medications from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Then-President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/importation-final-rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authorized<\/a> the import of drugs from Canada in November 2020, opening the door for states to launch initiatives to provide consumers with access to less expensive medications.<\/p>\n<p>Many states have also passed legislation to enforce programs for importing medications from Canada, including Florida, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, and New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Each state must submit its proposal for certification to the U.S. Health and Human Services ( HHS ) in order to take part in the program. The plan must adhere to <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=(title:21%20section:384%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section384)&#038;f=treesort&#038;edition=prelim&#038;num=0&#038;jumpTo=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 804<\/a> of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act&#8217;s&#8217;s comfort and cost-saving needs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite guidance from 78 % of Americans, the system has not yet been put into action, according to Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma, also known as Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America( PhRMA ), filed a lawsuit against HHS in late 2020 to stop the drug importation program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, according to EndPoints News, PhRMA claimed that the HHS and FDA&#8217;s&#8217;s actions&#8221; would force pharmacists and wholesalers to buy particular prescription drugs from Canada into the United States without drug manufacturers&#8217; authorization or oversight, presenting substantial safety risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma&#8217;s&#8217;s petition and efforts to halt the export were dismissed in February by District Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas House passed a bipartisan proposal that could save Texans as much as 70 percent on the cost of some commonly used prescription medications. 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James Talarico (D), would create a program to import certain drugs from Canada. \u201cTexans pay TWICE as much as Canadians for their prescription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":1916323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3957,7137,3653,7992,17725,3694,7221],"class_list":["post-1916322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-canada","tag-drugs","tag-house","tag-passed","tag-prescription","tag-texas","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}