Yet these "me-too" drugs—and the threat of them can help to constrain prices; and some can benefit particular groups of patients.
Not only does this inconvenience consumers, but Verizon "undermined one of the central goals of making FiOS available to every resident in the City: to expand New Yorkers' options for receiving cable television service and thereby to create competition that would constrain prices and enhance quality," the complaint continued.
There were several such periods of "good deflation" while the world was on the gold standard; with growth in the money supply constrained, prices were pushed down whenever the volume of output grew rapidly.
Still, the Federal Trade Commission, perhaps bowing to the perceived need to "do something," is investigating whether oil companies have constrained prices to artificially boost prices.
Weakness in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors helped constrain share price gains.
"Taking all the evidence in the round, we concluded that the availability of other media was not in itself sufficient to constrain the price of radio advertising and there was a significant proportion of campaigns for which radio advertising was not easily substitutable for other media".
The post also signaled its contention that our oil cronied administration and its Department of Energy would not lift a finger to initiate any action that would constrain the price of oil from moving ever higher because of fears related to Gustav.
Mr. Novelli said manufacturers should also "constrain the prices of new drugs" and should use their influence to "curtail greater markups throughout the distribution chain" to retail pharmacies.
But future cancer patients will have much to hope for, especially if lots of rival treatments emerge, since that should constrain their prices.
