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Why The Government Must Stop Playing Market Trader And Start Being The Sheriff

Anup Soans
By Anup Soans

India has two very different pharmaceutical regulators living inside the same government. Through the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, or NPPA, the state acts like a market referee, setting ceiling prices for essential medicines, monitoring price revisions, and pursuing overcharging under the Drugs Prices Control Order, 2013. Through the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, or CDSCO,…

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