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What are you talking about? Laws have and are being passed so people actually pay more at the pharmacy than ever before.
For example, Medicaid shows just how price controls backfire. According to the Government Accountability Office, a 1990 law requiring pharmaceutical firms to grant a 15 percent discount for Medicaid purchases ended up raising prices for managed care.
Price controls also would create other huge disincentives for companies to develop new lifesaving drugs. Not only would price controls curtail overall research; they also would divert it into less risky and less promising areas — particularly with regard to seniors.
In other words, if drugs that are primarily used by seniors suddenly are made unprofitable by federal decree, the drug industry would lose all incentive to develop cures for diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, that affect mostly senior citizens. Companies instead would focus on developing cures for which demand is more evenly spread among different age groups.
See? Government interference never actually ~helps~ anything, though it seems like it would.
The Government needs to stick where they are useful - judges, prisons, national defense and police. I think people can care for their homes and communities on their own.