Price Controls
Let's Not Import Bad Ideas Like International Price Indexing
How long do you think television companies would stay in business if the government told them to charge $200 for a TV even though the TV costs $250 to manufacture? Not very long, but that is exactly what the socialists in Congress want to do with...
When Will Politicians Learn, Price Controls Do Not Work?
A new bill would create an independent federal agency that would determine and regulate the cost of prescription medications.
Price Controls for Dummies
Democrats should learn what price controls REALLY mean.
Importing Foreign Drugs Will Not Lower Drug Costs
This morning, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to review two potential ways to allow “safe” im
Socialist Drug Price Controls Should be Rejected
It has been often said that in Washington, D.C. bad news comes out on a Friday afternoon and today, July 19, 2019, is no exception
Drug Price Controls Push Innovation Out of the Picture
As the debate over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) effort to increase government control over drug pricing heats up, a familiar proposal has also drawn scrutiny.
House Speaker Pelosi's Bizarre Drug Price Negotiation Plan
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is expected to soon release her long-awaited drug pricing proposal. According to news reports, the plan is expected to require the Department of Health and Human Ser
U.S. Should Not Import Foreign Price Controls on Drugs
Adopting other countries' drug pricing severely damage to innovation and developing new cures.
Conservatives Behaving Badly on Drug Pricing
Conservative politicians like to say they are for free markets, competition, and property rights to promote innovation and lower prices of goods. But when it comes to pharmaceuticals, too many of them go careening off the freedom road to promote...
Binding Arbitration for Medicare Part B: Price Controls by Another Name
The Trump administration proposed using an International Pricing Index in October 2018 to reimburse providers for drugs administered under
They’re Baaaaack – The Sequel
In their never-ending quest to run roughshod and exert control over the research-intensive biopharmaceutical industry, socialists in Congress have introduced various price-control bills. For some reason they continue to think innovative drugs that...
Using an International Pricing Index is NOT the Way to Lower Drug Costs
On December 6, John O’Brien, the senior advisor on drug pricing reform to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, published a blog, entitled, “How the IPI Model Would Intro
