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WikiLeaks: Drug firms tried to ditch Clark
WikiLeaks: Drug firms tried to ditch Clark
Drug companies tried to get rid of Helen Clark when she was health minister, leaked US Embassy cables claim.
They also claim that one major drug firm so strongly objected to restrictive drug buying rules that it lobbied against New Zealand getting a Free Trade Agreement with the US.
The detail is buried inside cables from the embassy obtained by WikiLeaks revealing the struggles of the pharmaceutical industry to gain traction inside New Zealand.
The cables reveal that the drug industry changed tactics in trying to get New Zealand to change its drug pricing policy.
Instead of directly lobbying the Government, the embassy was told of plans to agitate patients by providing them with information about drugs that weren't available. It would "educate New Zealanders."
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