Keyes, Obama Both Support Imports of Prescription Drugs; Bush Administration Frowns On Practice, While the Governor Champions It

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › August 17, 2004

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CHICAGO (AP) - Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama and Republican rival Alan Keyes managed to agree on at least one thing Tuesday: Both support legalizing pharmaceutical drug imports to spare Americans the higher U.S. prices.

At dueling news conferences, the Senate rivals were asked their views of reimporting prescription drugs, a cause Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has championed. Both Senate candidates backed it, a surprise in the case of the conservative Keyes. The Bush administration frowns on it.

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Keyes, Obama Both Support Imports of Prescription Drugs; Bush Administration Frowns On Practice, While the Governor Champions It

"We need protection for our nation's seniors, not protectionism for dru...

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