By Anna Levchuk and Molly Bowman, Clarivate No, you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. In this case, your “cake” is a 6-cents-worth generic pill in your medicine cabinet. Governments of developed countries have sounded the alarm on the precarious competitive situation with generic drug manufacturing for several years now. At the same time, they cling to the illusion that it is possible to provide low-cost drugs and at the same time keep polluting industries beyond their borders.