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Sally Pipes: Bernie Sanders Offers Wrong Solution to Cut Drug Prices

Featured in Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
July 28, 2019

Sanders is right about one thing. Americans pay too much at the pharmacy counter. But drug companies are hardly the culprits. If he really wanted to help patients, Sanders would attack the root of the problem – America’s opaque and convoluted drug pricing system.

Americans with Type 1 diabetes have seen their drug costs skyrocket in recent years. Between 2012 and 2016, annual spending on insulin for these patients grew from $2,864 to $5,705.

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Food Labeling Follies

Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D.
July 29, 2019

California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) recently made it official: Your morning cup of coffee won’t give you cancer. Next week’s newsflash probably will be, swallowing an orange seed doesn’t cause a tree to grow in your stomach.

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Wayne Winegarden in Forbes: Inflation Caps Are Price Controls By Another Name

Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
July 26, 2019

Instead of embracing a new “big government” fix to the health care system, Congress should start addressing the underlying flaws leading to the undesired outcomes. These include enabling greater transparency in the pricing of drugs, improved efficiency in the supply chain, and broader payment reforms.

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Opioids: Bad Science, Bad Policy, Bad Outcomes

Issues and Insights | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Josh Bloom
July 26, 2019

The problem is quite real, but legislators and regulators are making incorrect assumptions and adopting flawed strategies. And then, there are some flawed clinical studies and statements by the U.S. surgeon general that conspire to create misunderstanding of the landscape . . .

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