This is on point. I'm Meghna Chakrabardi. Back in June of 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did something no other governor had done before.

The audience could soon gain access to cheaper prescription drugs from Canada under new legislation

just signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Americans pay some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world, as much as 190% more than other Western countries.

This law was something different.

It didn't allow individual Floridians to cross the U.S.

northern border to buy medications, the law authorizes the

state of Florida to import drugs from Canada. The state estimates it could save

Florida around 180180 million just in the first year.

But getting the law passed in Florida was just the first step.

The federal government then had to approve the plan. And the FDA sat on

Florida's drug importation application for years, so long that in fact in

2021 Governor Desantis sued the FDA.

It's been under review enough. We have followed every regulation. We've met every

requirement that we were asked to meet and we want now to be able to get this final approval

so that we can finally move forward

Desantis gave those remarks at a speech in an empty warehouse in Lakeland, Florida.

A facility the state spent about 30 million dollars on in order to store the drugs they were hoping to import from Canada.

Well, that warehouse is still empty.

But earlier this month, after three years in review,

the FDA finally approved Florida's drug importation plan.

In a statement, Governor DeSantis said, quote,

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