Election Lore

  • Why Drug Prices Are Unnecessarily High

    The root problem in our drug pricing system isn’t just high prices—it’s how those prices are set. In a normal market, buyers and sellers see the price and make decisions accordingly. But in pharmaceuticals, the system is built on information hiding and artificial scarcity. LIST PRICES AREN’T REAL Manufacturers set list prices arbitrarily high, but…

  • Fixing Costs, Not Just Cutting Them: A Smarter Approach to Reduced Spending

    Cost-cutting is not a plan—it’s a reaction. It often ignores the fact that spending exists to solve a real problem. The policy in place may be expensive and ineffective, but simply cutting or trimming it doesn’t make the problem go away—it just ensures we’ll solve it badly again in the future. The real issue isn’t…