Why Big Pharma Wants Australian Government to Pay Them to Make Drugs

Pharmaceutical companies have turned to the federal government for help funding the development of new drugs they say they cannot afford to produce on their own but that play a key role in saving lives from antibiotic resistance.

Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer, GSK and others have called on Labor to introduce a subscription model under which Labor would pay them a flat fee of up to $15 million a year for each drug.

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