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PM Ishiba Takes Note of Opposition Party’s Plea for Scrapping Off-Year Revisions
Yuichiro Tamaki and other senior members of the opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPP) made a direct plea to abolish the off-year drug price revisions to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Health Minister Takamaro Fukuoka on December 6. Ishiba…
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