Analysts say that the government has begun strengthening the standard for cascading drug pricing in order to reduce the number of generics. A plan to reduce the existing list of 20 items, which is currently used as the standard for lowering the upper limit of new items, to 10 seems promising. However, the industry points out that there is a limit to reducing the number of large generics even if the tiered drug pricing standard is strengthened. Rather, it is predicted that it will only encourage development.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare recently entrusted a research service to Kongju University professor Kim Dong-sook's team on the subject of 'preparation of measures to improve the drug price syste