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Industry Wants OTC Tax Break and No Annual Price Cuts, Groups Tell LDP
Pharmaceutical industry organizations prodded lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on November 18 to avoid implementing a proposal to revise drug prices annually and introduce a tax break system that would incentivize the use of non-prescription medicines. At…
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