The Food and Drug Administration's green light for the state of Florida to begin importing prescription drugs from Canada surfaced as a talking point for state governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis in Wednesday night's two-person GOP debate ahead of the Iowa caucuses. [US News - Healthy Communities]

European countries dominate this list of nations seen by survey respondents as having well-developed public health systems.

The long-awaited federal approval followed a lawsuit to speed up the process and already had been touted by DeSantis as a triumph over “the federal bureaucracy of 2 presidential administrations,” though both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump had hands in creating the pathway that led to it. Regardless, it's a sentiment that fits nicely with the governor's depiction of Florida as “a refuge for freedom” and the "envy of the nation."

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