{"635335":{"#nid":"635335","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Buy America Order Could Worsen Medical Supply Shortages, Economists Say","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/ries\u0022\u003EChristine Ries\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Economics, was quoted in the segment \u0026quot;Buy America Order Could Worsen Medical Supply Shortages, Economists Say,\u0026quot; in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMarketplace\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on May 12, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA \u0026quot;Buy America\u0026quot; order from the federal government could result in shortage of certain medical goods, some economists fear, as well as raise prices. However, there are some in the field, including Ries, who see a way to make the order feasible and productive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut other economists, like Christine Ries, professor of economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, would be OK with a Buy America order if it included price controls in exchange for subsidies or tax breaks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The company would have to certify that yes, this was Buy American and yes they were keeping the price at the same level as when China was supplying,\u0026rdquo; Ries said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2020\/05\/12\/economists-say-buy-america-order-could-worsen-medical-supply-shortages\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-05-13 17:00:51","changed_gmt":"2020-05-13 17:07:46","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"AI-based Discovery and Innovation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2020\/05\/12\/economists-say-buy-america-order-could-worsen-medical-supply-shortages\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65466":{"id":"65466","type":"image","title":"Christine Ries","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894579","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:59","alt":"Christine Ries","file":{"fid":"193224","name":"final_portraits_mckitrick_001__main_public.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_portraits_mckitrick_001__main_public.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_portraits_mckitrick_001__main_public.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8105653,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/final_portraits_mckitrick_001__main_public.jpg?itok=p1l-9WAZ"}}},"media_ids":["65466"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167037","name":"school of economics"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}