Post Elections - Health Care back on the Agenda
The result of the recent Presidential election means that lawmakers will move quickly on drug reimportation legislation. This will allow drugs produced by U.S. manufacturers then and sold into Canada and Europe to be reimported back into the U.S. by patients. This is the prediction of John Manthei, global co-chair of the health care and life sciences practice at the Washington law firm Latham & Watkins LLP. Manthei makes this prediction because President-Elect Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has previously shown support for the legislation.
Manthei also thinks there will be more achieved in the health care focused committees in the Senate with Sen. Hillary Clinton now able to focus on these issues without the distraction of presidential campaign. This has effectively taken her away from health where she has tremendous interest and expertise.
Tags: reimprortation
November 10th, 2008 at 1:27 am
And not before time! While the #1 issue in the polls was the economy, health care was still the top issue for 9% of people which was equal with terrorism and only one percentage point behind the problems in Iraq. We will work through the finacial meltdown but people will still be paying too much for health care. Its a structual problem in the US and so it will take years to fix.