No Room for Cheap Cures

It’s every opportunist company’s dream: a product that’s necessary to survival plus limitations on competition and other market forces that would ordinarily drive the price of that product down. These are the conditions which result in desperate people having to pay exorbitant prices for necessary medicine. Isn’t this where regulators ought to step in? In China, the regulators have stepped in to protect consumers, but they’ve had mixed success. A team of Caixin reporters and editors tells the story of the protracted battle among pharmaceutical companies, Chinese hospitals, online marketplaces, and the humble, and often quite sick, consumer. getAbstract recommends this revealing Caixin article to health care industry regulators, patients and pharmaceutical providers.