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The Suffocation of Innovation: When the Left fights progress, fight back.(prescription drug coverage and new drugs)
A few years ago, I took part in a congressional hearing on prescription-drug coverage for seniors. During the hearing, Robert Reischauer -- the former director of the Congressional Budget Office and now a budget expert at the Urban Institute -- stated that "If you could tell me that we could design a health system in America that would provide coverage to everyone so we didn't have 34 million people uninsured, but the price of that would be that we would, in 1999, have to live with 1997 medicine, I would say, fine, as long as the 1997 medicine continued each year."
Is it really "fine" to impose that sort of bargain on Americans? Such proposals ignore the huge ...
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