Exclusive: Drugmakers offer Canada C$1 billion to scrap some pending pricing rules

The pharmaceutical industry has made a last-ditch C$1 billion ($761 million) proposal to the Canadian government in hopes of fending off parts of a drug pricing crackdown set to go into effect on Jan. 1, according to industry documents reviewed by Reuters. The remaining regulations would still reduce drugmakers’ revenue by at least C$19.8 billion ($15.1 billion) over 10 years, according to an industry estimate. If other costly reforms are shelved, the industry is willing to spend C$1 billion over the same period to boost local manufacturing and commercialization, and on new programs to improve access to …read more

Source:: Yahoo Finance

      

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