Drug Pricing Executive Orders Are a Prescription for Disaster
14 August 2020
Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom, discusses President Trump's executive orders on drug pricing and the negative consequences of government price controls on innovation and to consumers.
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