Vermont fed up with feds over drug costs.

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There have been rumblings from states facing the pressures of ever rising drug prices. And several states--Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Wisconsin--have actually set up Web sites where residents can order lower cost, foreign prescription drugs. But Vermont is the first state to sue the federal government for rejecting its plan to import prescription drugs from Canada.

The suit, against the Food and Drug Administration, was filed in August. Bowing to increasing pressure to find affordable medicines for their residents, Vermont officials asked the agency last fall to approve a pilot program that would allow the state to...