[The European enigma of pharmaceutical pricing: still solvable?] / L'enigma europeo dei prezzi dei farmaci: è ancora risolvibile?
Recenti Prog Med
; 113(6): 355-358, 2022 06.
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ABSTRACT
The attempt to regulate pharmaceutical pricing has a long tradition in Western European countries and various solutions have been experienced in recent decades to try to control public pharmaceutical spending. Nonetheless, drug prices have become increasingly out of control and unsustainable even in the richest European countries. In a situation of "market failure" such as the pharmaceutical one, in fact, two totally opposite needs collide the main objective of the health authorities of universal access to essential drugs, versus the aim of the pharmaceutical industry to maximize turnover in order to guarantee high returns on investments. We are therefore convinced that the growing threat of drug prices that are too high must be solved with drastic solutions. The goal of this contribution is therefore to first summarize the current situation of pharmaceutical pricing in Western European countries, then debate the main issues currently discussed and finally propose a radically alternative scenario that moves from prices to the budget.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
11_ODS3_cobertura_universal
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1_ASSA2030
Problema de salud:
11_financial_arrangements
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1_financiamento_saude
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1_medicamentos_vacinas_tecnologias
Asunto principal:
Costos de los Medicamentos
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Industria Farmacéutica
Tipo de estudio:
Health_economic_evaluation
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
It
Revista:
Recenti Prog Med
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article