Why Are There Drug Shortages?

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Why Are There Drug Shortages?


Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/11/why-legalizing-organ-sales-would-help-to-save-lives-end-violence/248114/


Price Controls Can Be Deadly

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/price-controls-can-be-deadly/


Retail Gasoline Price Ceilings and Regulatory Capture: Evidence from Canada

http://aler.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/2/532.abstract?etoc

 


Medical News: Economics at Heart of Drug Shortages – in Oncology/Hematology, Chemotherapy from MedPage Today

http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/Chemotherapy/29398

 


Vending Machines for Prescription Drugs, and Other News

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Vending Machines for Prescription Drugs, and Other News

 


Column: Drug shortage: What can I do?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-09-13/cancer-drug-shortage/50389896/1


Government Price Controls Produce Cancer Drug Shortage – Who Would Have Guessed?

http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/08/government-price-controls-prod


Price Controls

http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/07/08/price-controls-make-a-statement-about-society/


Medicare, Food Stamps, and Rationing

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/medicare_food_s.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4de79c858e4658be%2C0


Price Controls for Limo Rides

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Price Controls for Limo Rides


Laws Against Low Prices

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Laws Against Low Prices


“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators” — P.J. O’Rourke.


Price Controls

http://www.econlog.econlib.org/library/Enc/PriceControls.html


Price Controls and Inflation Can Kill…literally:

“Most experts agree that alcohol abuse has been a major cause of Russia’s soaring mortality rate. But why have ever more Russians been drinking themselves to death? Some attribute this to despair in the face of painful economic change. I present evidence that, in fact, the surge in alcohol-related deaths – and premature deaths in general – was fuelled by a dramatic fall in the real price of vodka, which dropped 77 percent between December 1990 and December 1994. Variation in vodka prices – both over time and across Russia’s regions – closely matches variation in mortality. Although market competition and weak excise collection help explain the fall in prices, the main reason appears to be populist price regulation during inflationary periods.”

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123299399/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0


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