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MOF Generic Target, Reference Pricing Rollout “Impossible”: LDP Panel
A healthcare committee of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) agreed on June 18 that it would be “impossible” to set a generic share target of 80% by the end of FY2017 or introduce a so-called reference pricing system as…
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