Simple and neat solutions are alluring but often wrong. A case in point is President Trump’s proposal to adopt a most favored nation (MFN) policy. The MFN sets Medicaid’s price for a drug at the ...
Legislation to restrict assessment of credit card interchange fees has been proposed in multiple states this year, but is unlikely to pass in any. Progressive Democrats like Senator Bernie Sanders ...
“We support efforts to lower the price of medicines and improve patient access, but these efforts must be grounded in market-based principles that respect free enterprise and foster future medical ...
Mr. Mahoney is an economist and Mr. Ramamurti is a former deputy director of the National Economic Council. Democrats dominated the Nov. 4 elections, but the other big winner was price controls. In ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other ...