The current edition of the Alexandria Gazette Packet includes this article about David’s ongoing fight to reduce the cost of prescription medications for all Virginians. Here’s an excerpt:
While he was campaigning for a seat in the House of Delegates last year, Del. David Englin (D-45) focused his health-care efforts on a little-known program that allows consumers to purchase reimported drugs from Canada. Called “I-SaveRx,” the program was created in Illinois to allow American consumers to take advantage of Canada’s low-priced pharmaceuticals. In candidate forums and in one-on-one meetings with voters, candidate Englin talked about how I-SaveRx could help low-income seniors afford expensive prescription medication.
“It’s just the right thing to do,” Englin said at one candidate forum last year.
When he arrived in Richmond as a freshman legislator, Englin made a point of putting I-SaveRx at the top of his agenda. It was the first bill he filed in the House of Delegates, a symbolically important position as a number-one priority.
Click here for the full article. For more information about I-SaveRx, go to www.I-SaveRx.net.
