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The Railroad Safety Act Makes Railroads Less Safe

In a new RealClearMarkets article, Market Institute President Charles Sauer warns that Washington’s instinct to “do something” after a tragedy often leads to bad policy that expands government power without addressing the real causes of a problem. Using the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio as an example, Sauer Read more…

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marketinstitute The Market Institute @marketinstitute ·
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The East Palestine derailment was a tragedy.
The bipartisan response in Washington?
Exploit it.

The Railroad Safety Act would raise costs on rail, shift more goods to trucks, and increase highway risk—all so politicians can say they “did something.”

Doing something is not the

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marketinstitute The Market Institute @marketinstitute ·
10 Mar

Exactly. 340B was supposed to help vulnerable patients—not subsidize hospital consolidation. When Washington creates arbitrage opportunities, large systems exploit them while independent practices disappear. Patients lose competition and choice.

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Designed to lower Rx costs for low-income patients, the 340B program has become wasteful, corrupt, and oversized. 340B hospitals now take advantage of this program to get rich off patient savings.

"As hospitals bring in billions in 340B revenue, they use those dollars to buy up

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10 Mar

This gets the logic exactly backwards -- it is because of the patent system that the United States is the world leader in biopharmaceutical innovation.

Weakening the patent system won't lower prices for patients. It would undermine medical progress.

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