They're all groaning about soaring health budgets, the fastest-growing component of which are pharmaceutical costs.

他们都在抱怨飞速上涨的医疗预算，其中增长最快的部分是药品成本。

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They're all groaning about soaring health budgets, the fastest-growing component of which are pharmaceutical costs.

他们都在抱怨飞涨的医疗预算，其中增长最快的部分是药品成本。

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Last year biotech drugs accounted for 70% of the increase in pharmaceutical costs in America, according to Medco, a drug-plan manager.

据药品计划管理公司Medco（中文名：美可）称，去年生物技术药品占美国药品费用增长额的70%。

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Biotech has always relied on partnerships with big pharmaceutical firms to share costs associated with Food and Drug Administration approval and eventually with marketing and distribution of approved drugs.

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The hospital deal follows Obama's announcement last month of an agreement reached with the nation's pharmaceutical industry to cut drug costs for elderly Americans, calling it an example of the kind of compromise required for successful national health care reform.

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The fund will dedicate around 15% of a projects costs in sectors like pharmaceutical and biotech, aerospace, energy efficiency and infrastructure.

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