Heritage Foundation - Guaranteed Future Pain and Suffering: The Recent Research on Drug Price Controls

Excerpt: "Not only would price controls add to the delay in the development of drugs and eliminate any number of new drugs, they would also cause a delay in the introduction of new drugs into the market. A 1999 study by the Boston Consulting Group found that the more interference in the market there was in a given country, the longer it took approved drugs to reach the marketplace."

Heritage Foundation - Debunking the Myths of Drug Importation

Excerpt: "Economists, both liberal and conservative, agree that drug prices will not drop in the United States as much as they will rise abroad. The Congressional Budget Office concluded that allowing importation would reduce prescription drug spending by only about 1 percent and that importation from Canada would result in a “negligible reduction in drug spending.”