Free Market For Drugs? It Won’t Work, But Here’s What Might

Marcelle Arak and Sheila Tschinkel, The Conversation, Salon: Politics
Sat, 01/21/2017 - 3:29pm

The United States faces a major problem with prescription drug prices. Even as the prices of most goods and services have barely budged in recent years, the cost of drugs has surged. During the presidential campaign, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump cited the high cost of prescription drugs as an issue that needed to be addressed.

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