No Link — a 20% price control is optimal, increasing access without decreasing profits.  Moshe Levy , business professors, Hebrew University, 2014, [School of Business, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0113894] We find that mild price regulation can substantially increase consumer surplus and the number of patients using the drug, while having only a second-order effect of the revenues of the pharmaceutical companies. For example, setting the price cap at

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COVID causing a Global economic downturn now, pushing 60 million people into poverty and risking a world war due to rising nationalism Reinhart, September/October 2020, CARMEN REINHART is Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at the Harvard Kennedy School. Subsequent to the completion of this article, she was named Chief Economist at the World Bank.VINCENT REINHART is Chief Economist and Macro Strategist at Mellon, The Pandemic Depression,

Global economic downturn now, pushing 60 million people into poverty and risking a world war due to rising nationalism Reinhart, September/October 2020, CARMEN REINHART is Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at the Harvard Kennedy School. Subsequent to the completion of this article, she was named Chief Economist at the World Bank.VINCENT REINHART is Chief Economist and Macro Strategist at Mellon, The Pandemic Depression, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-06/coronavirus-depression-global-economy

COVID-19 is resulting in a loss of health insurance and curtailed health insurance Blumenthal, July 22, 2020 David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., Elizabeth J. Fowler, Ph.D., J.D., Melinda Abrams, M.S., and Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., July 22, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine, Covid-19 — Implications for the Health Care System, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsb2021088 The pandemic has significantly undermined health insurance coverage in the United States. A sudden surge in unemployment — exceeding

Medicare for All will not reduce health care spending Irene Papanicolas, PhD1,2,4; Alberto Marino, MSc1,3; Luca Lorenzoni, MSc3;, 2020, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2769102, Comparison of Health Care Spending by Age in 8 High-Income Countries, Corresponding Author: Irene Papanicolas, PhD, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom ([email protected]). Introduction The United States spends more on health care than any other country.1 Unlike many other high-income countries,

Free with registration Access to care is not the driving force in health equity. The driving force in health equity is the economy, which they worsen Del Rio, 8-14, 20, Del Rio is Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the executive associate dean for Emory at Grady. He is also professor of global health and epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health and co-director

Health care is not a right Sally Pipes, 2020, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All, Pipes is the President & CEO, Pacific Research Institute . This rhetoric presents a false choice. Health care is neither a right for the many nor a privilege for the few. It’s a good and a service, just like everything else in our market economy. SCARCITY CAN’T BE WISHED AWAY Scarcity is

Medicare for All would cost 50 trillion Sally Pipes, 2020, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All, Pipes is the President & CEO, Pacific Research Institute . Medicare for All would be not just disruptive but expensive, too. A study by Charles Blahous, a scholar at the Mercatus Center, estimated that Medicare for All would add between $32.6 trillion and $38.8 trillion to the federal budget over its