The history of government price-control policies that seek to impose price ceilings on goods and services…
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Ramirez Cartoon: Drug Price Control Poison

The history of government price-control policies that seek to impose price ceilings on goods and services is both long and replete with failure. That’s because price controls discourage innovation and investment, and lead to shortages in the marketplace, among other unintended consequences.

No targeted industry is immune from the predictable negative impacts of prices controls – not even prescription drugs, which seem to be a primary target in the price-control crosshairs of policymakers at all levels of government.

In his latest cartoon, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez sums up the negative consequences of prescription drug price control policies – whether they take the form of direct price caps, “negotiated” Medicare and other prices, or Most Favored Nation…[more]

May 28, 2025 • 01:05 PM

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Wednesday, March 28 2012

A Long Island (NY) Apple Store is being sued by a local woman who ran into the glass doors in the front of the store.

Evelyn Paswall (83) is suing Apple for $1,000,000 after she smashed her face into the glass doors and broke her nose.  Paswall claims the glass doors pose a risk to the elderly because the clear, see-through glass wall and/or door exist without proper warning.

“Apple wants to be cool and modern and have the type of architecture that would appeal to the tech crowd, but on the other hand, they have to appreciate the danger that this high-tech modern architecture poses to some people,” said Paswall’s attorney Derek T. Smith.

According to news reports, warnings strips have recently been posted on the glass at some Apple stores.

—Source: newyork.cbslocal.com

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