Commentary

U.S. Experiences Record Drug Shortages in Wake of Price Controls

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 01 2023

"The record of price controls goes as far back as human history. They were imposed by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. They were decreed by Hammurabi, king of Babylon, in the eighteenth century B.C. They were tried in ancient Athens." -Henry Hazlitt If the popular definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” holds merit, then no contemporary government effort exceeds the needless insanity of drug price controls. And now we’re paying an increasingly heavy price for it. …

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