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Call 'Negotiated' Drug Prices What They Really Are: Price Controls
Submitted by Benjamin Zycher on 1.21.2005
Advocates of cheaper drug prices like to talk about federal "negotiation" of prices with pharmaceutical companies. And when they do, they almost always point to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which they say has used its size to "bargain" for better deals on prices for years. Why, they want to know, can't Medicare do the same thing?
Keeping Up With the Joneses
Submitted by Walter E. Williams on 1.12.2005
Greedy or Ignorant
Submitted by Walter E. Williams on 1.10.2005
Summary: The recently published "Miracle Cure," by Sally Pipes, president of the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, exposes health-care myths while explaining why the sometimes-touted Canadian style health care isn't the answer.
Importing drugs from Canada is neither safe nor realistic
Submitted by Peter J. Pitts on 1.9.2005
Your Jan. 2 editorial Drug industry protected at taxpayer expense cited opposition to legalized drug importation from the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Customs, Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration -- those who would be responsible for an importation program's implementation. Yet it maintained that importing pharmaceuticals from Canada is safe and essentially without consequence. Having worked for the FDA, I understand the devastation that imports would bring to the U.S. drug-safety system, and it's simply not worth it.
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