{"id":681,"date":"2004-02-25T07:05:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/drug_reimportation_safety\/"},"modified":"2004-02-25T07:05:01","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T12:05:01","slug":"drug_reimportation_safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/drug_reimportation_safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Reimportation &#8220;Safety&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C-SPAN is rebroadcasting the hearings from yesterday&#8217;s Governors Forum on Prescription Drug Importation.<br \/>\nAt issue is the FDA&#8217;s opposition to the importation of prescription drugs from Canada (and elsewhere) due to <strike>the fact that the FDA is working for the drug companies<\/strike> &#8220;safety&#8221; concerns.<br \/>\nOne fact illustrates just how silly this is.  We&#8217;ve had more people killed by eating imported green onions in the past year than we&#8217;ve had from importing unsafe prescription drugs.<br \/>\nSimply put, the real issue is profits, not consumer protection.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Senator McCain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/news\/022504\/mccain.aspx\">threatening to derail the confirmation of a new Medicare chief<\/a> if the administration doesn&#8217;t clarify its position on drug reimportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/drug_reimportation_safety\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Drug Reimportation &#8220;Safety&#8221;\"><p>C-SPAN is rebroadcasting the hearings from yesterday&#8217;s Governors Forum on Prescription Drug Importation. At issue is the FDA&#8217;s opposition to the importation of prescription drugs from Canada (and elsewhere) due to the fact that the FDA is working for the drug companies &#8220;safety&#8221; concerns. One fact illustrates just how silly this is. We&#8217;ve had more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}