NYT Columnist Can't Even Conceive of a Free Market in Prescription Drugs

The debate over prescription drug pricing is a great testament to how deeply propaganda can affect people's thinkings. The NYT had a piece on lowering prescription drug prices by Jay Hancock, a reporter for Kaiser News Service.

Hancock runs through a range of mechanisms that the government can pursue to make drug prices lower. Incredibly, he never mentions what would almost certainly be the most simple route: stop making drugs expensive with patent monopolies.

Drugs are almost invariably chea...