email icon Email this citation

CIAO DATE: 12/03

The High Price of Cheap Drugs

John E. Calfee

On The Issues

July 2003

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

Congress is considering whether to allow pharmaceuticals exported by American manufacturers to be reimported into the United States. Reimportation would mean importing foreign price controls, which would destroy the pricing structure of the U.S. drug market and have disastrous consequences for future drug research and development.

Full Text (PDF format, 3 pages, 136 KB)