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Price Controls and Drug Affordability in India: Policy Options systems cannot rely entirely on market mechanisms for healthcare delivery. Price controls are a method of regulating drug prices for achieving health policy goals (Gray & Matsebula 2003). The governments use interventions from the supply side by controlling drug prices and/or from the demand side b

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Health Insurance in India 207). Most of the industrialised nations, except the US, and a small number of developing countries, provide health insurance programmes to cover most of their populations for substantial share of their health expenditure including pharmaceuticals. In the US, the public health insurance (Medicaid,

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Broadening Access to Medicines and Healthcare in Indiae literature. This group of people is too rich to belong to the BPL families and too poor to belong to the middle-class Indians. The 300 million strong middle-class (M-class) Indians are the primary target for marketers and often acknowledged in the global media. The around 350. million estimated po

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Final Conclusions deals with the impact of the TRIPS agreement on the pharmaceutical industry and the access to medicines in India, acknowledging that the introduction of the TRIPS compliant regime from 1 January 2005 marked a major shift in India’s public policy on the protection of intellectual property rights (IP

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Which Way Ahead?. Of all the intellectual property within TRIPS, the issue of pharmaceutical product patents has been the most controversial one (Alsegârd 2004). However, the TRIPS agreement is a set of rules on which all WTO members agreed. It may not suit the circumstances and interests of every member state; nevertheless, it is an agreed set of rules.