Word: waxman
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...costs down, the West German government last September resorted to stringent price controls on drugs that could cut pharmaceutical revenues there as much as 40%. Last month Japanese authorities cut prescription prices an average of 9.2%. "The price of drugs is running out of control," warns Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House subcommittee on health and the environment and a leading legislative advocate of lower costs. "If the price increases continue, the public is going to demand that Congress start changing...