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From the article:

The problem of drug prices eating up national health budgets has been coming up at the annual World Health Assembly. Last week, a panel of experts discussed the merits of lowering those prices by delinking research and development costs from pricing.

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It would be best if the government does the studies so they will be taken most seriously. Their prediction is that a comparison will show delinkage is a better approach.

Several vectors moving here and they share the principle that a private-sector monopoly (or equivalent) is the problem, not the solution and that if the society made up of the individuals using the medications is to survive as a society (and not simply as a thick clot of mall rats) then rational approaches are required, so as to determine the right paths to take (and also to un-take).

WHA 68: Experts Discuss Delinking R&D Costs From Pricing To Make Medicines Affordable.