Federal Hypocrisy Over EpiPen: A Tale of Pot and Kettle
Aphorisms like "the pot calling the kettle black" persist because they keep being proven relevant. Such is the case with politicians' outrage over Mylan Pharmaceuticals' price gouging for its life-saving EpiPen: their price has risen from less than $100 for a two-pack in 2007 to $600 today. The government ("pot") is loudly and very publicly calling Mylan ("the kettle") "black"-at fault-for something the government itself did. The solution to the exorbitant price of EpiPen is not public shaming, such as claiming that Mylan is "just the latest troubling example of a company taking advantage of its consumers." The solution is not Mylan's proposed coupon program or its introduction of a "generic." Most definitely, the solution is not more government controls through regulation. The answer lies in releasing market forces from government suppression. If government bureaucratic barriers were eliminated, sellers could co...