Chapter 18

In nearly every instance in which the standards of service and of public welfare have not been maintained we find that monopoly groups have been responsible for the abuse of public confidence. When monopoly is able to impose restrictive conditions on the production, the price and the distribution of vital medicines and to determine who may buy and sell products, it is in the interests of the drug industry and the public alike for government to intervene. Thus when it was found that a small ring of producers had bee…