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Govt Panel Members Call for Drastic Drug Pricing Reform, Annual Revision
Members of a powerful government panel on October 21 continued to push for a dramatic overhaul in the drug pricing system, including annual price revisions, blaming drug spending as the key culprit of Japan’s ballooning social security expenditures. “There is…
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