Less than two weeks ago, you may recall, Governor Rod Blagojevich sent letters to the Vermont House and the governor urging them to pass and sign an I-Save Rx bill that he had promoted and had been approved by a Senate committee.
Well, yesterday, the Vermont legislature passed the bill.
The state Legislature has passed a bill authorizing the state to take part in a program that allows residents to buy prescription drugs from Canada. Gov. Jim Douglas plans to sign the measure, which would make Vermont the fourth state to join the program, I-Save Rx, first put in place by Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois last fall. Vermont sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August for rejecting a plan with a Canadian pharmacy in which Vermonters could receive mail-order prescriptions.
Bet he couldn’t repeat that rapid success in Illinois right now.