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Caught in a squeeze between the health needs of aging populations on one hand and the financial crisis on the other, governments
Caught in a squeeze between the health needs of aging populations on one hand and the financial crisis on the other, governments
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2014-06-30
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问题
Caught in a squeeze between the health needs of aging populations on one hand and the financial crisis on the other, governments everywhere are looking for ways to slow the growth in health-care spending. Increasingly, they are looking to the generic-drugs(普通药物)industry as a savior. In November Japan’s finance ministry issued a report complaining that the country’s use of generics was less than a third of that in America or Britain. In the same month Canada’s competition watchdog criticized the country’s pharmacies for failing to pass on the savings made possible by the use of generic drugs. That greed, it reckoned, costs taxpayers nearly C$1 billion a year.
Then on November 28th the European Commission issued the preliminary results of its year-long probe into drug giants in the European Union. The report reached a damning, though provisional, conclusion: the drugs firms use a variety of unfair strategies to protect their expensive drugs by delaying the entry of cheaper generic opponents. Though this initial report does not carry the force of law(a final report is due early next year), it has caused much controversy. Neelie Kroes, the EU’s competition commissioner, says she is ready to take legal action if the evidence allows.
One strategy the investigators criticize is the use of the " patent cluster(专利群)". A firm keen to defend its drug due to go off-patent may file dozens or hundreds of new patents, often of dubious merit, to confuse and terrify potential copycats and maintain its monopoly. An unnamed drugs firm once took out 1, 300 patents across the EU on a single drug. The report also suggests that out-of-court settlements between makers of patented drugs and generics firms may be a strategy used by the former to delay market entry by the latter.
According to EU officials, such misdeeds have delayed the arrival of generic competition and the accompanying savings. On average, the report estimates, generics arrived seven months after a patented drug lost its protection, though where the drug was a big seller the lag was four months. The report says taxpayers paid about ¢ 3 billion more than they would have had the generics gone on sale immediately.
But hang on a minute. Though many of the charges of bad behavior leveled at the patented-drugs industry by EU investigators may well be true, the report seems to let the generics industry off the hook(钩子) too lightly. After all, if the drugs giants stand accused, in effect, of bribing opponents to delay the launch of cheap generics, shouldn’t the companies that accepted those "bribes" also share the blame?
The investigators seriously condemned the drug firms for______.
选项
A、they do not let their opponents to resort to the court
B、they use clusters of patents to protect their products
C、they bribe the cheaper generic opponents
D、they do not pass on the savings made by use of generic drugs
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。由定位句可知,调查员们严厉谴责药品公司是因为其利用“专利群”这一策略,即为一个产品申请多项专利,B)符合题意。A)的表述在文中并未提及,故排除;最后一段最后一句虽然提到bribing opponents to delay the launch of cheap generics,但是作者没有说这是研究者们强烈谴责的方法,故排除C);第一段倒数第二句提到Canada’s competition watchdog criticized the country’s pharmacies forfailing to pass on the savings,可见这里受到谴责的是加拿大的药店,不是所有药品公司,故排除D)。
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