Bad medicine

The government’s reported move to link prices of pharmaceutical drugs with India’s per capita income is in keeping with government policy of lowering drug prices. Based on this, prices of important drugs could fall to a tenth or even less. Last month, the government announced a $5.4 billion plan to provide free generic drugs to the Indian public, and also promised to initiate a project through which patients can look for cheaper alternatives to prescribed medicines via SMS.

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