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Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation

By Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics, UMass Amherst

By extending their monopoly on a drug, companies prevent generics and other competitors from driving down prices. But increasing transparency can help prevent Big Pharma from gaming the patent system.

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