When prescribing cures for 'overpriced' drugs, Government's first duty is do no harm

Forbes

25 April 2019 - Overpriced. Excessive. Escalating. Gouging. 

Politicians and talking heads of every political stripe utter such words about the cost of prescription drugs with alarming regularity. Something must be done, they proclaim. But the purported problem is being considered, as so many are in Washington, in a vacuum, with little understanding of a profoundly complex pharmaceutical marketplace. 

Poorly informed and in a rush to act, regulators and elected officials are proposing cures that not only flout legal and constitutional requirements and protections, but also imperil biomedical progress and the Americans who benefit from it.

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