Dear President Clinton and All Members of Congress:

For thousands of years, governments have tried to control prices. The universal experience has been that price controls produce shortages, black markets, reduced quality, and economic hardship.

Now, once again, programs to control health care prices are on the policy agenda. Under the guise of controlling Medicare costs and shielding the elderly from "unfair" prescription-drug prices, current proposals would restrict discounts on drug prices, cap health care spending, and limit insurance premiums. Among those adversely affected would be hospitals, members of managed care organizations, public health clinics, and government programs such as Medicaid and the Veterans Health System, which, because of their mass-buying power, are able to negotiate favorable drug prices for patients.

In countries with price controls, health care services are severely rationed. Patients wait months and sometimes years for surgery, suffering significant harm to health, even death, as a result. Government bureaucrats, rather than doctors or patients, select treatments. Pharmaceutical innovation languishes. In recent decades, American health care firms have created hundreds of new drugs, devices, and other medical products that have saved millions of lives, not only in the United States but around the world. The best way to save millions more is to enhance the incentives to research, develop, and market new health care products. Existing price controls and other trade restrictions affecting health care goods and services should be removed in order to encourage dynamic entrepreneurship in competitive markets. The result will be lower prices, greater innovation and higher quality.

Despite claims to the contrary, price controls do not reduce medical costs. Nor do they call forth improved health care services. Instead, they produce lower-quality medical care, reduced innovation, and costly new bureaucracies to monitor compliance, adding to the burdens of health care providers already entangled in red tape. Price controls harm consumers of medical services, especially those most in need of health care services.

We urge you to oppose all forms of price controls in any health care reform.

539 economists and other scholars from all fifty states and the District of Columbia

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• Charlotte Twight, Boise State University
• Jon G. Udell, University of Wisconsin
• Michelle A. Vachris, Christopher Newport University
• James Van Beek, Blinn College
• T. Norman Van Cott, Ball State University
• Hendrik F. van den Berg, University of Nebraska
• Karen I. Vaughn, George Mason University
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• Randal J. Verbrugge, Virginia Tech University
• John M. Vernon, Duke University
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• Deborah L. Walker, Loyola University New Orleans
• Stephen J. K. Walters, Loyola College in Maryland
• Alan Rufus Waters, California State University, Fresno
• Myles J. Watts, Montana State University
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• Lawrence H. White, University of Georgia
• Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University
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• Roman L. Weil, University of Chicago
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• Ivo I. Welch, University of California, Los Angeles
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• John T. Wenders, University of Idaho
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Co-Sponsors of the Open Letter on Health Care Policy Reform

• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
• Cancer Research Institute
• Hispanic Business Roundtable
• Independent Women’s Forum
• International Patient Advocacy Association
• Liberty AIDS Education Foundation
• National Kidney Cancer Association
• National Taxpayers Union
• Non-Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S.A.
• Small Business Survival Committee
• United Seniors Association