Note the graph on drug cost. New Zealand is cheap because of pharmac. This is a government owned company that buys in bulk for the country. By negotiating like this, good deals are made. As part if so-called fair trade agreement TPP there is pressure to drop this model. Gee, I wonder why...
Free trade agreements would seem to be anything but. Obviously the US negotiates to benefit itself, and NZ is pushing to have its dairy and meat exports tariffs removed. I suppose we have to give somewhere. I hope not though.
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Note the graph on drug cost. New Zealand is cheap because of pharmac. This is a government owned company that buys in bulk for the country. By negotiating like this, good deals are made. As part if so-called fair trade agreement TPP there is pressure to drop this model. Gee, I wonder why...
How is there anything wrong with bulk buying like that?
Free trade agreements would seem to be anything but. Obviously the US negotiates to benefit itself, and NZ is pushing to have its dairy and meat exports tariffs removed. I suppose we have to give somewhere. I hope not though.