January 12, 2013
Morning Edition had a nice piece on the large and growing black market in prescription drugs as people increasing turn to sellers outside of the United States to buy drugs at prices that are far lower than the patent protected prices in the United States. As the piece explains, the drugs purchased through these channels are of uneven quality. This is exactly how economic theory predicts people would respond to a government intervention that raises drug prices by many thousand percent above their free market price.
Comments