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In Washington, The Answer Is Drug Shortages But What Is The Question?

 
• By Bowman Cox

They’re all probing the drug shortage problem, each with a different line of inquiry: the Federal Trade Commission and the Health and Human Services Department, House Oversight Committee Democrats, and the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Finance Committee.

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Like hapless Jeopardy contestants, Washington policymakers know the answer to many constituents’ misery is to prevent drug shortages, but they are struggling to find the right question. 

Is it how to get market intermediaries to take less profit? Is it how to get pharmaceutical companies to manufacture...

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