Could this be the same Nice which refuses to authorise breakthrough drugs for cancer patients because they're too expensive?

A breakthrough drug can cost at least $200 million and take 12 years to reach the market.

"If the climate is not conducive, there will be no breakthrough drugs," Hoffman.

But in the last five years Pfizer has introduced only a handful of breakthrough drugs.

Their predictions have been on breakthrough drugs for the cure of cancer, fight in weight loss, and heart disease.

"The plan as it now stands would have a detrimental effect on research and development of breakthrough drugs," she said.

How will you produce the next generation of breakthrough drugs if you have price controls?

In addition, pharmaceutical companies are putting out declining numbers of "breakthrough" drugs that represent large steps forward for public health.

But breakthrough drugs actually account for only 20 percent of the new drugs approved.

At the moment we have new drug categories like osteoporosis, breakthrough drugs for certain cancers.