Our View on Which Senate Bills Should Wait For Fall
An editorial urges Congress to extend the August recess as a chance to rethink stalled measures. It questions the high cost of a Medicare prescription drug entitlement and the creation of a Homeland Security Department. It notes partisan tensions over costs, executive power, and civil service rules, warning against rushed passage before the anniversary of the 9 11 attacks.
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A Critique of Price Controls in Pharmaceuticals
Lowell, a senior fellow at Hoover Institution, argues cost to develop new medicines runs to hundreds of millions. He warns that lowering US prices to Canadian levels erodes funding for R&D, slowing discovery of drugs for AIDS, Alzheimer's, cancer. He notes US leads in drug innovation and warns price controls hurt sick people.
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