European price cuts - a return to form?
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
In times of financial belt-tightening, medicine prices are an easy target for national governments. And it seems that, in Europe at least, pharma firms should be prepared for the return of an old-fashioned method of cost-containment.
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