Lisa Desjardins:

Amna, Florida plans to import drugs to treat diabetes, HIV and hepatitis C, among others.

That would lower state spending for things like Medicaid and prisoner health care. Florida officials believe it can save them as much as $150 million a year. State proposals to import drugs finally gained traction in 2020, after President Trump pushed to make it easier for states to do so.

The following year, President Biden issued an executive order directing federal officials to move forward.

To help assess what this all could mean, I'm joined by Stacie Dusetzina, who studies all of this at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Stacie, this decision, as we said, has taken 20 years to get to this point. But how significant is it?

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