S'pore used to pay whatever price drug companies asked for, but not any more

The hundreds of millions of dollars in savings from better drug prices gets ploughed back into more subsidies for patients. PHOTO: UNSPLASH
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SINGAPORE - Till recently, Singapore was a dream market for pharmaceutical companies.

They quoted a price for their drugs and the Republic paid it.

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