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- Cheaper prescription drugs may finally be coming — to Florida.
- After a years-long battle, the FDA approved Florida's plan to import prescription drugs from Canada.
- Florida will be the first state to try out the plan to get prices down.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared the way for Florida's first-in-the-nation plan to import lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada, a long-sought approach to accessing cheaper medications that follows decades of frustration with U.S. drug prices.