Posted: 2009-12-17 16:34
by Tom O'Keefe
With President Obama's lobbying; Senators Rockefeller, Lieberman, Dodd and Kerry from Mass were joined by 30 other Democrats who voted to not allow Americans to purchase far less expensive prescription drugs from outside the US.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-health-senate16-2009dec16,0,4934854.story
This was a major aspect of reform and could have provided real competition and potentially saved struggling Americans billions. Absolutely inexplicable why any honest politician could have conceivably voted against this.
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