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Opposition CDP Eyes Nonpartisan Bill to Scrap Off-Year Drug Price Revisions
Japan’s leading opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), is looking to launch cross-party efforts towards creating legislation to abolish “off-year” drug price revisions. The target is to abolish the scheme in FY2027. The CDP aims to draw…
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