紧急求助prep2-34（关于药价问题）

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请教prep2-34（关于prescription drugs）

Prep1 CR 34.       (31982-!-item-!-188;#058&005681)

For several years, per capita expenditure on prescription drugs in Voronia rose by fifteen percent or more annually.  In order to curb these dramatic increases, the ministry of health prohibited drug manufacturers from raising any of their products' prices.  Even though use of prescription drugs did not expand after this price freeze, per capita expenditure for prescription drugs continued to increase by a substantial percentage each year.

 

 

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the ministry's action did not achieve its goal?

 

 

(A) After price increases were prohibited, drug manufacturers concentrated on producing new medications to replace existing products.

(B) The population of Voronia rose steadily throughout the period.

(C) Improvements in manufacturing processes enabled drug manufacturers to maintain high profit levels on drugs despite the price freeze.

(D) In addition to imposing a price freeze, the government encouraged doctors to prescribe generic versions of common drugs instead of the more expensive brand-name versions.

(E) After price increases were prohibited, some foreign manufacturers of expensive drugs ceased marketing them in Voronia.

答案为A，为什么呢？我自己都不明白为什么药价没再高了，购买的量也不变，人们花在药上的钱还是增多……到底为啥？

求大牛们帮忙了。

dingshuaijun

A,生产出新药并发布出去的时候正好也是ministry of health 没有及时的freeze这个品名的药price。那么他们就钻时间差的空子。

by the way,中国的药价下不来也有这个原因，很多药就是换了个包装又重新高价出售逃过了药监局和工商的限制了。

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dingshuaijun 发表于 2008-8-19 20:05
A,生产出新药并发布出去的时候正好也是ministry of health 没有及时的freeze这个品名的药price。那么他们就 ...

所以政府限制的只是any of their products' price that are existing, right?

这个now and future的gap隐藏的好深！