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IN A TURNAROUND, WHITE HOUSE KILLS DRUG-IMPORT PLAN [1]

['Robert Pear']

Date: 2000-12-27

The Clinton administration today killed a program created by Congress to allow imports of low-cost prescription drugs. The administration said the import plan would not be safe and would not save money for consumers.

Donna E. Shalala, the secretary of health and human services, said the program, adopted by Congress with much fanfare, was severely flawed.

''These flaws,'' Dr. Shalala said, ''undermine the potential for cost savings associated with prescription drug reimportation and could pose unnecessary public health risks.''

Even though President Clinton had previously questioned the feasibility of the program, expressing doubts even as he signed it into law, the timing of Dr. Shalala's finding was a surprise. The Clinton administration could easily have left the issue to President-elect George W. Bush, but instead invoked a provision of the law to abort the program.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/us/in-a-turnaround-white-house-kills-drug-import-plan.html

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