• MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    by aligning what the government pays for certain medications to the prices paid in other countries.

    Big pharma will just raise the rate across the world, in some cases against the local country controls. So those govts will just authorise the use and manufacture of generics, like India did who invalidated copyrights, to bring down the costs. Next, big pharma will get generics banned in the US so back to square one with the high prices.