Dear Mr. President:

Price controls produce shortages, black markets and reduced quality. This has been the universal experience in the 4,000 years that governments have tried to artificially hold prices down using regulations.

You insist that your health care plan avoids price controls. We respectfully disagree. Your plan sets the fees charged by doctors and hospitals, caps annual spending on health care, limits insurance premiums, and imposes price limitations on new and existing drugs.

In countries that have imposed these types of regulations, patients face delays of months and years for surgery, government bureaucrats decide treatment options instead of doctors or patients, and innovations in medical techniques and pharmaceuticals are dramatically reduced. Here in America, the threat of price controls on medicines has already decreased research and development at drug companies, which will lead to reduced discoveries and the loss of life in the future.

In the 1970s, government tried to regulate the price of a simple homogeneous produce, gasoline. The result was a social and economic disaster. People were forced to waste hours waiting in lines to purchase gasoline. Long waits for surgery and other medical care will have far more serious consequences.

Caps, fee schedules and other government regulations may appear to reduce medical spending, but such gains are illusory. We will instead end up with lower-quality medical care, reduced medical innovation, and expensive new bureaucracies to monitor compliance. These controls will hurt people, and they will damage the economy. We urge you to remove price controls, in any form, from your health care plan.

• Burton Abrams, University of Delaware
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• George W. Trivoli, Jacksonville State University
• George Troughton, California State University, Chico
• Leo Troy, Rutgers University
• Bradford H. Tuck, University of Alaska
• Gordon Tullock, University of Arizona
• Norman B. Ture, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
• Charlotte Twight, Boise State University
• Jon G. Udell, University of Wisconsin
• Melville J. Ulmer, University of Marytand
• John Umbeck, Purdue University
• Robert L. Utely, Wake Forest University
• Ronald Utt, Novecon
• James Van Beek, Blinn College
• Hendrik van den Berg, University of Nebraska
• John B. Van Huyck, Texas A & M University
• Karen I. Vaughn, George Mason University
• Richard K. Vedder, Ohio University
• Susan M. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
• Warren R. Wade, North Park College
• Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University
• Michael L. Walden, North Carolina State University
• Deborah Walker, Loyola University, New Orleans
• Myles S. Wallace, Clemson University
• Stephen J. Walters, Loyola College of Maryland
• John T. Warner, Clemson University
• Alan Rufus Waters, California State University, Fresno
• Carolyn L. Weaver, American Enterprise Institute
• Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University
• Merle Yohr Weiss, Temple University
• Robert Weissberg, University of Illinois
• Finis Welch, Texas A & M University
• John T. Wenders, University of Idaho
• Walter J. Wessels, North Carolina State University
• J. Fred Weston, UCLA
• James B. Whisker, West Virginia University
• Lawrence H. White, University of Georgia
• Kenneth Wiles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Allen J. Wilkins, Marshall University
• Walter E. Williams, George Mason University
• J. F. Willis, San Jose State University
• Bradford Wilson, Ashland University
• Paul Wilson, University of Texas
• R. Mark Wilson, University of South Florida
• Mark Wohar, University of Nebraska
• Christopher Wolfe, Marquette University
• Gary Wolfram, Hillsdale College
• Kar-Yiu Wong, University of Washington
• Christopher Wonnett, University of San Diego
• J. Stuart Wood, Tulane University
• W. William Woolsey, The Citadel
• Thomas L. Wyrick, Southwest Missouri State University
• Bruce Yandle, Jr., Clemson University
• Stephen Yates, University of South Carolina
• Sang-Seung Yi, Dartmouth College
• Edward E. Zajac, University of Arizona
• Imad Zbib, Ramapo College
• Harman Zeigler, University of Puget Sound
• Thomas S. Zorn, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Catherine Zuckert, Carleton College
• Michael Zuckert, Carleton College
• Benjamin Zycher, UCLA

* In The Open Letter to President Clinton, 565 economists and 76 other scholars from all 50 states and the District of Columbia state their firm opposition to any form of direct and indirect price controls in any healthcare program. Rationing Health Care: The New Threat of Price Controls, by Simon Rottenberg and David J. Theroux

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