{
  "id": 16756154,
  "title": "‘Don’t treat people’s lives as commerce’: SC pulls up Centre and hospitals over medicine mark-ups",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/dont-treat-peoples-lives-as-commerce-sc-pulls-up-centre-and-hospitals",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-27T14:13:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/supreme-court-medicine-markups-11793099037938.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The court reserved its order in a PIL seeking drug pricing reforms, criticising the Centre and NPPA for delayed action while questioning massive gaps between procurement costs and MRPs.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}