In Japan, doctors prescribe drugs and sell the drugs to the patient, receiving a 25 percent markup.

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In Japan, doctors prescribe drugs and sell the drugs to the patient, receiving a 25 percent markup. In the United States, doctors prescribe drugs, but, generally, they do not sell them.

a. Which country prescribes the most drugs? Why?

b. How would a plan to limit the price of old drugs, but not new drugs to allow for innovation, likely affect the drug industry?

c. How might a drug company in the United States encourage a doctor in the United States, where doctors receive nothing for drugs, to prescribe more drugs?

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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 978-1259663048

10th edition

Authors: David C. Colander

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