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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

New Drug Price Proposal Light on Competition, Heavy on Bureaucracy

Richard Morrison, Gregory Conko

Last Friday, Hillary Clinton announced a new plan to “respond to unjustified price hikes” on certain pharmaceutical drugs. This comes after weeks of public debate over the rising price of the EpiPen, a device used by people experiencing life-threatening allergic reactions. It also comes after last year’s media firestorm over the decision of Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli to dramatically raise the price of the drug Daraprim. The plan, which contains three main recommendations, is encouraging in its initial suggestion of greater competition as a solution, but is still troubling in its insistence that government agencies police individual price increases and micromanage the conditions under which existing anti-competitive restrictions would be relaxed......To Read More....

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