Kamala Harris’s Price Controls Fraud
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has pledged an economic policy of government price controls. Her anti-“price gouging”...
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James Edwards
Jan 303 min read
Bernie Convenes a Gang Beating
Senate HELP Chairman Bernie Sanders has kept busy strongarming biopharma company executives. Sanders threatened to subpoena those who...
James Edwards
Sep 26, 20233 min read
IRA, Sen. Manchin and the Future of Drug Innovation
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined “A Law That Isn’t Red or White—and Sure Isn’t Green,” Sen. Joe Manchin claims his...
James Edwards
Aug 31, 20234 min read
Reality of IRA Price Controls Is Dark
President Biden took major credit when he announced the first 10 medications to face price negotiations with the Centers for Medicare and...
James Edwards
Jul 1, 20233 min read
Sen. Sanders Wants to Repeat a Policy Failure
What do you get when you cross a self-proclaimed socialist with a U.S. Senate committee gavel? You get legislative power used to push...
James Edwards
Jan 27, 20233 min read
IRA Sows Seeds of Socialistic Health Policy
“The [Inflation Reduction Act]’s false promises will eventually be proven hollow—and extremely costly,” a recent Locke’s Notebook...
James Edwards
Dec 1, 20223 min read
IRA’s Price Controls Make False Promises, Will Deliver All Too Real Socialist Results
Newly enacted government price controls aren’t even implemented yet, but they’re already having an effect. But instead of forcing down...
James Edwards
Aug 5, 20223 min read
"Build Back Manchin" Is Inflationary Tax-and-Spend
From a property rights perspective, the Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill that Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer brokered turns out...
James Edwards
Jul 19, 20223 min read
A Closer Look at the Drug Pricing Scheme
Thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin, other politicians in his party have seen item after socialist item fall from the budget reconciliation...
James Edwards
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Just Rhetoric on Inflation
There he goes again. President Biden’s launched yet another round of blame-shifting for his 40-year-high inflation. And he’s pushing...
James Edwards
May 10, 20223 min read
House GOP’s Healthy Future
House Republicans have begun rolling out proposals from their Healthy Future Task Force. The policy initiatives from the Treatments...
James Edwards
Feb 1, 20223 min read
BBB’s Dead; Socialist Price Controls Still Breathe
One thing that remains on the table for many in Congress and the White House is certain to damage some treasures of America’s health...
James Edwards
Dec 10, 20213 min read
The Grinches Stealing America’s Christmas
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are behaving a lot like the unrepentant Grinch Who Stole Christmas —...
James Edwards
Nov 18, 20212 min read
Wait for a CBO Reality Check on Budget Reconciliation
Voting on the budget reconciliation bill without having a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, which House Democrats are...
James Edwards
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Lessons from Messing with Medicare
In 1989, a powerful Washington politician messed with Medicare. Grandma and Grandpa weren’t happy. The guy who was untouchable in the...
James Edwards
Jun 22, 20212 min read
U.S. Voters to Pols: Drop the Radicalism
It turns out the American people aren’t as generous with other people’s property or with their hard-earned tax dollars as some...
James Edwards
Feb 26, 20213 min read
WTO and Property Theft That Aids China
It isn’t surprising when nations with little respect for property rights use multilateral bodies to take away someone’s property. It may...
James Edwards
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Price Controls By Any Other Name Smell as Rank
The famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet says “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Like that famous illustration,...
James Edwards
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Property Rights Key for COVID Cures
It should be hard to miss, but America’s biomedical innovators and industry — that is, private companies putting their own or investors’...
James Edwards
Nov 9, 20193 min read
Higher Costs, Lower Quality, Longer Waits
Let’s be blunt about so-called “Medicare for All:” We’re talking about government-run, government-controlled health care. Period. A...
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