Some perspective AMCo accounts for roughly 60% of CXR by sales, and roughly 80% of that is in the UK. So just under 50% in the UK. Weighted average price of AMCo's prescriptions is under 6 pounds, that is because the drugs that they mention are niche products with very little volume.
The article in question from the times is not on the front page. In fact, it was not even the top story on the NHS, or the 2nd, or the 3rd.
The top NHS story was this:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/failures-cost-60-000-lives-every-year-sv2cxgt6x
On how the NHS causes 60,000 people to die each year.
The British public is far more likely to view this as NHS incompetence as anything else. Most articles about the NHS are about waste and incompetence.
It is clear that this practice was known 6 years ago, and nothing was done about it.