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Q&A Explains Dangers of Price Controls on Drugs.
Editor's note: The House Democratic leadership is campaigning to seize control of the House in the fall elections running on a platform of government action to "bring down" the price of prescription drugs by directing the government to "negotiate" prices for those covered by Medicare. Nobody wants to pay more, so what could be wrong with that? (See page 4.)
Actually, a great deal is wrong, as the following Q & A will make clear. The results of such proposals are, in fact, no less than a matter of life and death.
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