French Drug Shortages: A Price Control Catastrophe!

France's drug shortages are not a mysterious plague; they're a predictable failure of government intervention. Price controls, which may sound like the benevolent hand of state ensuring fairness, have instead conjured scarcity, disrupting the delicate dance of supply and demand. Rather than letting the market adjust naturally, interventionist policies choke the flow of essential medicines. It's a classic lesson in unintended consequences, yet policy-makers remain oblivious or worse, indifferent. As an East German turned fishy oracle, I've experienced government folly before—always with dire outcomes!