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There is even greater concentration in the distribution sectors of the industry, with three firms effectively dominating the wholesale market while the Mercury Drug chain controls 40 percent to 50 percent of the retail market. Such market structure enables market leaders to exercise substantial control over price levels and set what is generally known in the business as “the highest price that the market will bear,” said Margaret Bengzon of the Ateneo School of Government.
Prices of pharmaceuticals in the Philippines are thus among the highest in the world¯even higher compared to neighboring countries Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, though drug companies have time and again attributed the price differences to cost and quality. The House bill goes also as far as rooting the problem to what Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. describes as the “inutility of government to use its power to restrain the unconscionable profits in drugs and
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