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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 11 March | 112 comments (111 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)
Meh (none / 1)
The statutory health insurers have wanted to this this for years. However (according to this morning's dead-tree sources), the insurers want an independent cost-benefit analysis of each new (or "new") medicine before going into negotiations; Rösler (FDP) wants to prevent that.

An FDP man is not going to do anything that will really hurt business.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 03:48:28 AM EST
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Re: Meh (none / 0)
In addition, a politician making threats doesn't mean any action will follow... the head of the pharma lobby already responded by calling the proposal populist, so expect a climbdown. But whether FDP voters will notice the trick I'm less sure.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 06:01:17 AM EST
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