Medicine Merchants: How Companies Stall Generics and Keep Themselves Healthy. “That is not what Congress envisioned in 1984 when it passed

a law intended to keep drug prices down by speeding up the

entry of generic drugs. The Drug Price Competition and

Patent Term Restoration Act was intended to foster

competition between brand and generic companies, and it

has. It was not supposed to prompt rivals to join hands in

keeping drugs off the market. ” New York Times