{"id":13871,"date":"2019-08-22T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:44:21","slug":"shopping-abroad-for-cheaper-medication-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13871","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Abroad For Cheaper Medication? Here\u2019s What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

In its effort to temper the sky-high prices Americans pay for many vital medications, the Trump administration last month unveiled\u00a0a plan\u00a0that would legalize the importation of selected prescription drugs from countries where they sell for far less. But the plan addresses imports only at the wholesale level; it is silent about the transactions by millions of Americans who already buy their medications outside the United States.<\/p>\n

Americans routinely skirt federal law by crossing into Canada and Mexico or tapping online pharmacies abroad to buy prescription medications at a fraction of the price they would pay at home.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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