Germany approves healthcare costs overhaul despite significant pharma opposition - Pharmaceutical Technology

There are a range of cost-containment measures across the bill that will create a significant healthcare system shakeup. There are a range of cost-containment measures across the bill that will create a significant healthcare system shakeup. The reform is one of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s flagship manifesto agendas designed to battle spiralling insurance premiums. Credit: LumenandLines/Shutterstock.com. Lawmakers in Germany have passed a bill that will cut health insurance costs in a shakeup that has generated strong resistance from global drugmakers. Germany’s Bundestag, the country’s primary legislative body and national parliament, gave approval to a financial reform of the statutory health insurance…

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