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too much regulation. No patents, no approvals, and you don't need 50k+ employees and years to find out a drug doesn't work. Under current system we wouldn't be able to approve aspirin for goodness sake. It just wouldn't go through FDA:

http://www.medicalprogresstoday.com/spotlight/spotlight_inda...

Haven't we had enough of high prices and stagnation in pharma already?

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So says a Koch mouthpiece, at least. Your source likely isn't really interested in keeping medical care costs down - they oppose letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, push fracking, etc. It's an industry group like the AEI.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute_for...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_...

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