Health insurers cheap drug policy okayed

Health insurers are quite within their rights to only pay for the cheapest versions of generic drugs, a court in Utrecht ruled on Friday.


Pharmaceutical wholesalers and dispensing chemists say their income will be hit hard by the new policy and urged the court to declare it illegal.

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