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Japan offers easy access to new medicines, whose prices are decided by the government and subsidized by a public health insurance system, but that may change, Reuters explains. Confronted with the ballooning cost of caring for an aging population, the government is introducing a cost-effectiveness test for drugs as a means of capping prices. Drug makers say the system, which will be adopted in April, may chase new medicines out of the market, while patients also fear more drastic changes, such as denying access to new treatments.
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