On Drug Price Increases, Pfizer's Read Expects ‘Business As Normal’ In 2019
Executive Summary
Presiding over his last earnings call as the CEO of Pfizer, Ian Read was pressed about the company's drug pricing strategy for 2019 amid push back from the Trump Administration.
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