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The Modern Economy Is Rigged With Dean Baker

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Health Care Inflation and Patent Laws

The Buy Doll Act made it much easier for companies to get patents under search. That was at least partly funded by the federal government. After that, prescription drugs began to rise very rapidly as a shared GDP. So yeah, it's a tremendously important part of health care inflation.

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