Congressional Issues 2006
MORALITY AND CULTURE
Prescription Drugs

The 108th Congress should

• abolish the FDA and eliminate all obstacles to medical freedom, reducing the cost of bringing pharmaceuticals to the public
• allow private investment of funds now confiscated for Social Security, giving Seniors thousands of dollars a month more than they currently receive

• Why price controls on prescription drugs would harm seniors
• U.S. spending on prescription drugs
  • Despite complaints about prescription drug costs, most countries spend a larger chunk of their GDPs and total health budgets on medicine than does the U.S. Worse, foreign price controls have strangled the introduction of new drugs.
• Ten myths about the market for prescription drugs
• Prescription drugs: Big government vs. really big government
• The Pusher - Reason Magazine
• The Medicare Drug Benefit War
• Making Sense of Drug Prices
• Tough Pill to Swallow

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