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Drug Importation Picks Up Support

AARP, Two Senators Back Issue as McClellan Makes Concessions

By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 12, 2004; Page A02

Proposals to allow Americans to buy low-cost prescription drugs from other countries such as Canada picked up two new Senate supporters yesterday and received a major boost from the seniors' group AARP.

In full-page newspaper advertisements and a letter to pharmaceuticals makers, the lobbying group credited with helping pass last year's Medicare prescription drug benefit weighed in forcefully in favor of drug importation, a proposal the group had only tepidly accepted in the past. On Capitol Hill, Sens. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said they now support importation.

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