Good news. In this recent work mocked me in criticizing the false promised benefits to the citizen with the ability to sell OTC outside the traditional channel-pharmacy, but when would it be worth selling prices for moderation expensive drugs are necessary and essential , and I quoted them exactly between the case of alendronate, a drug to fight osteoporosis, sold at the time of publication to more than 38 Euro for one month of therapy. I obviously brought luck. Meanwhile, alendronate 70mg was first dropped by a trifle, because 1,80 Euro general decrease of 5% of the selling prices of many drugs (government decision) by November 15 but has settled at around the 24 Euro. Not by government decree, but the decay of the maximum period of exclusivity of the patent, and simultaneous launch of alendronate in the form of generic, non-designer and much less expensive, which has forced major producers to decrease spontaneously price not to be outclassed by the generator. Bearing in mind that then are updated each month to the bottom of the lists of reference for the maximum price reimbursed by the National Health Service in proper reference to the molecules no longer covered by patent confidential, they are surely expected further falls.
goes without wondering why the producers of branded drugs have the luxury to keep the price of alendronate designer about 40 Euro per year (a molecule very amortized by the patent, because if it is true that the once-weekly dose of 70mg is quite recent in the past has been used for decades by the daily dose 10mg), and why those who have given their permission to do so, and why the various manufacturers to adopt all the same price (custom very popular ...). Industries are betting that we earn well having reduced the price by almost 50%? Do you know who I'm very proud of the remittance of money? Who, for example, myself, had stored at the warehouse about 30 packs of various brands of alendronate, and burns without a shot being fired close to 500 Euro value of goods, which in practice is double counting and loss of earnings by selling packs now before you buy decrease in price. Never mind, we are not complaining, in fact, we are pleased because this can really be helpful to citizens even if, as often happens, especially at the expense of the intermediate distributors and end users, and not the (powerful) producers.
remain roughly in the topic, I hope to be able as soon as possible to publish an extensive collection of ideas on one of the most absurd and unjustifiable phenomena in the history of medicine: homeopathy. See you soon ...
goes without wondering why the producers of branded drugs have the luxury to keep the price of alendronate designer about 40 Euro per year (a molecule very amortized by the patent, because if it is true that the once-weekly dose of 70mg is quite recent in the past has been used for decades by the daily dose 10mg), and why those who have given their permission to do so, and why the various manufacturers to adopt all the same price (custom very popular ...). Industries are betting that we earn well having reduced the price by almost 50%? Do you know who I'm very proud of the remittance of money? Who, for example, myself, had stored at the warehouse about 30 packs of various brands of alendronate, and burns without a shot being fired close to 500 Euro value of goods, which in practice is double counting and loss of earnings by selling packs now before you buy decrease in price. Never mind, we are not complaining, in fact, we are pleased because this can really be helpful to citizens even if, as often happens, especially at the expense of the intermediate distributors and end users, and not the (powerful) producers.
remain roughly in the topic, I hope to be able as soon as possible to publish an extensive collection of ideas on one of the most absurd and unjustifiable phenomena in the history of medicine: homeopathy. See you soon ...
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