UK Agrees to Pay More for US Medicines After Trade Negotiations

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Pharmacist Halina Jankowski at the Northside Pharmacy in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, on June 18, 2014. Samira Bouaou/Epoch TimesThe United Kingdom’s National Health Service will pay 25 percent more for new, patented U.S. medicines under the terms of a new trade agreement between the two nations.The deal is the latest in a series of agreements in which the United States has leveraged tariffs to secure concessions on prescription drug prices. This is the first deal reached with a nation rather than with pharmaceutical manufacturers.

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