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I have the feeling that Shopify optimizes their platform continuously.
Everything is super simple, integrated and linkable.
And the time and the money that I save can be invested in other ways, especially in growth.
Big Pharma in the firing line.
We pay much higher for drugs than the rest of the world.
We subsidize the rest of the world.
We're not doing that anymore.
In some cases,
the list prices for drugs that drug companies set are many times those in other countries,
like 10 times.
It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Gideon Long.
The deadline is up on Donald Trump's demand for drugmakers to slash the cost of prescription medicines in the US.
We'll hear what that might mean for the industry and patients.
Plus, video games maker Electronic Arts,
the company behind EAFC and Need for Speed, is being taken private.
And the French government tackles ageism in the workplace.
Welcome to the program and thanks for your company.
We're starting tonight by talking about the cost of medicine in the United States