Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I am not an advocate for government price controls, but it does seem to me that there are circumstances in which very clever people have either observed or created a monopoly for themselves and then used that monopoly power to extort prices that the market would not support if it were actually operating correctly.

Context

Whitehouse discusses the issue of monopolies in pharmaceuticals and their impact on pricing.

01/27/2016

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