In a high-profile move by the government, the price of the expensive cancer drug Opdivo was urgently slashed by 50 percent in February.
Social critic Roman Roland once observed that "In politics, the boss is always money." When elections are little more than a rich man’s game, money becomes a token used to win the right to more money, a key to the system of corruption. To put an end to collusion between government and business circles, democracy and the rule of law must be implemented, including the mechanisms of separation of powers and checks and balances, to put an end to abuses of power and corruption. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.