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Opinion: PhRMA’s talking points shouldn’t derail the Pelosi drug pricing bill

We need serious reform of both pricing and insurance coverage of prescription drugs. There will be tradeoffs, but if you want to know what they are, don't read PhRMA's talking…
Roche's Building 1 tower under construction on the banks of the Rhine river in Basel in 2014.

Two of the most innovative pharmaceutical corporations in the world have their headquarters on opposite banks of the Rhine as it flows through Basel, Switzerland. Ranked No. 2 and 4 in total worldwide sales, Roche makes Herceptin and other important cancer treatments while Novartis recently brought to market the immune therapy Kymriah and the gene therapy Zolgensma. Sanofi (7) is in Paris, Glaxo Smith Kline (6) and AstraZeneca (14) are in London, and Takeda (20) is based in

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