Even as the effort has met with fierce pushback from drugmakers, trade groups and opposition parties in the country’s own government, German lawmakers late Friday voted to pass health insurance ref | Even as the effort has met with fierce pushback, German lawmakers late Friday voted to pass health insurance reforms aiming at cutting healthcare costs, in part by hiking up mandatory rebates that pharmas must pay on branded medicines.

Germany's Bundestag passes a bill hiking drugmakers' patented-drug discount to 15.5%, aiming to cut €16.3B from 2027 health spending.

Even as the effort has met with fierce pushback from drugmakers, trade groups and opposition parties in the country’s own government, German lawmakers late Friday voted to pass…