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Is government-facilitated re-importation of prescription medicines from Canada a policy now supported by politicians as diverse as President Donald Trump and Senator Bernard Sanders an issue of free trade, or a backdoor method of imposing price controls? That's the way the question is usually framed in policy debates, but the great Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman took a third view. "The issue is patents," Friedman explained in a 2004 interview. "The real issue is not really re-importation. The real issue in my opinion is the Food...
