MONTPELIER — The Vermont House has declined to scrap a seven-year-old program to help residents buy cheap prescription drugs from Canada, even though its website has gone dormant and its phone number redirects to a sex line.
Rep. Oliver Olsen, a Jamaica Republican, offered an amendment on health insurance reform legislation to delete lawmakers’ endorsement in 2005 of a website called “I-SaveRX.net.”
That site now contains a series of ads, including one saying its domain name is for sale.
The phone number the program used now is answered by someone urging people to call another toll-free number, which turns out to be a sex line.
Olsen’s amendment went down to defeat.
Democratic Rep. Willem Jewett later called it a farce.
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