Drugmakers, wholesalers raise voices against new drug-pricing system

Concerns are mounting in both drug manufacturers and wholesalers over the contentious financial incentive system designed to grant cash rewards to doctors or pharmacists that would purchase medicines as cheaply as possible.

The system has been tentatively put on hold until January 2014 as the government slashed the price of about half the drugs on the market by an average of 14 percent in Ap...