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...Your article on why U.S. drug prices are so high should have come with a warning label: MAY CAUSE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE." BOB HENSLER North Ogden, Utah...
...least 20 states have joined the revolt. Utah's house of representatives last week passed a bill that forbids the state to spend any of its money to meet the law's requirements. No Child Left Behind has declared more than 6,000 schools failing and, the states say, imposed on them millions in costs to create new tests and accountability systems. Critics are upset about those costs and the difficulty of getting exemptions to the policy, even though many schools argue that they are failing only because a few students with special needs aren't making...
...issue is upending the usual party divide. Republicans have led the fight against Bush's policy in states like Virginia and Utah. Senator Ted Kennedy was a key Democratic supporter of the law--but is now contemplating changes. And Bush's likely opponent in the presidential race has criticized him sharply for the funding shortfalls but has so far indicated no desire to fight him on a central tenet of the law. Says an adviser to John Kerry: "He wouldn't in any way back away from the commitment to accountability...
Influential lawmakers have given unqualified support to the FDA's anti-Canadian stance, among them Orrin Hatch, a Republican Senator from Utah. Says Hatch: "Many of my constituents have written, asking why they cannot use the lower-cost medications from Canada. The answer is easy: it is just irresponsible for Congress to jeopardize public safety by allowing the unchecked reimportation of drugs ... If we truly care about our seniors and other patients who depend upon prescription drugs, we should not expose them to what amounts to pharmaceutical Russian roulette...
...inevitable in schools that there are fewer whites in schools. There are less to go around. We can’t helicopter kids in from Utah or Vermont,” he said...