A Global Health Care Remedy – Why We Must Fix High Drug Prices

May 22, 2012
Economy Watch
By Joseph E. Stiglitz

The pharmaceutical industry today is a broken intellectual-property regime, which holds back on the development and availability of cheap drugs for the sake of profit maximisation. But it doesn’t have to be this way. An international effort by the World Health Organisation may now represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remedy a long-standing and egregious inequity in health care. Read more

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