Price controls on insurance will simply make coverage less accessible and eventually less affordable too.
Kennedy also used the IRS to strong-arm companies into complying with "voluntary" price controls.
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As has been demonstrated in Europe, putting government price controls on medicines dries up innovation.
But expanding Medicaid-style price controls into Part D will not deliver the savings promised.
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Everyone is unambiguously worse off relative to where they would be without price controls.
Price controls inflict positive harm on precisely the people we wish to help, and for what?
The price controls would have reduced debit card interchange fees by as much as 80%.
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Moreover, McKinnell feels that the U.S. government can't afford to institute its own price controls.
This was because price controls kept fares high, and airlines competed for passengers with generous perks.
Although this experience with price controls had been a flop, Nixon decided to try again.
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Medicare subsidizing of drug costs seems inevitable, and price controls could follow in their wake.
It is with the Fed funds rate that logic about price controls goes out the window.
Price controls, even if laboriously tweaked, inevitably produce inefficiencies, reduce supply and cause bad side-effects.
And at least half-a-dozen places, including the senior Lebed's fief of Krasnoyarsk, are imposing price controls.
Wartime wage-and-price controls were swept away, as was the rationing of food, gasoline and other items.
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Wage-price controls could then be imposed to suppress inflation, just as happened under President Richard Nixon.
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Mr Mugabe has promised price controls and measures to promote black ownership of businesses.
As prices rose in 2008 the government intervened to curb farm exports and imposed price controls.
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Then it imposed price controls on oil (and most other things) to try to check the inflation.
Representative Marion Berry (D-Ark.) has a bill to impose federal price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare.
The government has also begun importing coconuts from India and Malaysia, and attempted to impose price controls.
What kinds of messages do price controls send about the kind of society in which we live?
The government supercharged growth, stimulating demand with wage increases, price controls, an undervalued peso and public works.
Wal-Mart avoids these price controls because its new product is not called a debit or cash card.
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Meanwhile, a vast bureaucracy has grown up to administer the price controls, supported by volunteers and litigators.
Strongman Augusto Pinochet removed price controls, privatized government companies and the social security system, and increased trade.
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Rampant inflation in Argentina is in part a consequence of said price controls, which extend far and wide.
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This diversification gives Schroer some room to maneuver if the feds ever do push through drug price controls.
This diversification gives Schroer some room to rotate if the feds ever do push through drug price controls.
The Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees Medicare, has resorted to crude price controls that are ultimately unsustainable.
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