Solving the Wrong Problem The Preliminary Report on the EC Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry: What Have We Really Learned?

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Kent Bernard, Feb 23, 2009

You could posit several fairly obvious reasons for the perceived lack of new innovative drugs in the European Union: Low reimbursement levels for innovative medicines and insistent tolerance for diversion/parallel would certainly be on the list. And reference pricing often makes generics much more expensive in the EU than in the United States, while at the same time making research into new branded drugs