Insulin giant pulls medicine from Greece over price cut

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The world's leading supplier of the anti-diabetes drug insulin is withdrawing a state-of-the-art medication from Greece.

Novo Nordisk, a Danish company, objects to a government decree ordering a 25% price cut in all medicines.

A campaign group has condemned the move as "brutal capitalist blackmail".

TVNL Comment: Health/medicine and business/capitalism/profit are natural enemies. They don't work together.

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