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Here’s How Trump Should Address The High Cost Of Prescription Drugs

April 6, 2018 By Jeffrey Singer

Here’s a solution: stop focusing on trying to control prescription drug prices, and start paying attention to who’s paying them.

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Abolish The FDA. It Does Patients More Harm Than Good

October 19, 2017 By Kalman Knizhnik

The rising costs of many, if not all, medications are largely the result of the lack of competition in the pharmaceutical industry. That’s the FDA’s fault.

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5 FDA Regulatory Decisions Scott Gottlieb Should Revisit As The New FDA Commissioner

April 5, 2017 By David Gortler

With his experience and highly competent past FDA leadership, Trump nominee Scott Gottlieb will oversee all the FDA divisions with better scrutiny than the prior commissioner did.

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No, Updating Federal Drug Regulations Will Not Spawn ‘Dangerous Medicines’

December 20, 2016 By Margot Cleveland

The Left insists that the 21st Century Cures Act’s regulatory updates to allow high-need patients to try out new drugs will mean more death and suffering. In fact, the opposite is true.

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Let’s Move Medicine From The 1960s

September 16, 2015 By Tom Coburn

The Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval procedures are hopelessly outdated. Medicine is already into the molecular level. Regulations should be there, too.