It failed and never was about the drugs in the first anyway. It has always been a proxy "war" for reasons that changed over time anyway.
http://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit...reform-english
I was surprised to read this by an author like Richard Branson. But it does not matter who wrote it. It just came from an unexpected direction.
I think like this myself since longer time, since many years.
We had a discussion on this already three years ago or so, I referred to a long TV documentation on ARTE back then.