"Corruption cost" promotes the role of the supervision department of the false high drug price
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Last Update: 2013-07-25
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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"Corruption cost" promotes the false high price of drugs According to reports, an executive of a domestic pharmaceutical sales company disclosed that drugs have a bid price (the price of entering the hospital) and a retail price, such as the bid price of an antibiotic, the retail price, and the cost price is between Yuan and yuan In addition to normal transportation, sales and other costs and commissions drawn by agents at all levels, hospital system, as the terminal link of drug sales, often draws a certain proportion of drug price "Commission" like dealers For pharmaceutical companies, there are too many links to get through besides the profits that are exploited layer by layer in each drug Many netizens said that the cause of the false high drug price is complex and the cost is not transparent Among them, the huge and invisible public relations expenses in the process of drug circulation are to blame Although antibiotics are individual cases, they are universal In order to control the false high drug price, we must clarify the drug cost, and to squeeze out the "water" in the drug price, we must cut off the current and unreasonable drug pricing mechanism and cut off the black interest chain Some netizens pointed out that for a long time, the high drug price has become a persistent disease of medical reform, which is the main cause of "expensive medical treatment" The price of a drug increases several, dozens or even more times from the time it leaves the factory to the time it reaches the patient Although the false high price of drugs is related to many factors such as "one drug, drug addition, doctor's rebate, etc., it is undeniable that the cost of drugs is not transparent enough and the public knows little about it According to the netizen "Liao Haijin", the actual cost information of drugs has become a secret due to various factors Most of the current drug costs are self declaration by enterprises In order to open up the market, some pharmaceutical enterprises have to add the so-called cost to the actual production cost of drugs through various "public relations" means, and finally the patients will pay the bill However, in the face of thousands of drug companies' hundreds of thousands of product specifications, the regulatory authorities simply cannot grasp the real cost of each product specification In this way, it will inevitably leave a high cost loophole for the bad drug companies Behind the high drug price lies the "corruption cost", said Li Shaoqiang, a netizen Why is the drug price so high? The important reason is that the cost of medicine includes all kinds of expenses These expenses are not necessarily visible, such as operating expenses To put it mildly, the operation fee is a kind of public relations expense for drugs to be put into the market; to put it mildly, the operation fee is a kind of naked bribery expense What's more, this kind of operation fee has existed for a long time and has become an open secret of the industry This kind of operation fee has a huge expenditure and all of it will be transferred to patients Shen bin, a netizen, pointed out that from the current exposed cases, the price moisture in the circulation link is closely related to the moisture in the factory price Long before leaving the factory, huge public relations expenses, conference expenses (or commercial bribes) were included in the drug price According to reports, for example, the "meeting cost" of the drug hepudine is actually equivalent to 20% of its factory price, and the money is the gray income of hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical associations through holding meetings and other channels, part of which is turned into the rebate of the company's executives, and the final consumers will pay for the gray income If we don't crack down on the commercial bribery of drug companies, no amount of cost investigation can find out that the costs that are included in the items of "sales expenses" and "management expenses" are actually corruption costs, which can't squeeze the water out of the inflated drug prices The regulatory authorities must play a greater role, said Tang Huazhen, a netizen In addition to improving the mechanism, the regulatory authorities must play a greater role To verify the composition and cost of drugs and set a reasonable price is only a link in the formation of drug prices In the long-term benefit chain of pharmaceutical production and sales, there are too many hidden "hidden rules" space, which must be strictly guarded For those enterprises that use illegal means to push up drug prices and sell drugs, they must fight hard and have no weakness For those moths hidden in relevant departments and hospitals, one should be cleaned up, and two should be cleaned up "Yu Minghui", a netizen, said that every link of drug development, production and sales has irreplaceable and non negligible cost and profit factors If we want to reduce the domestic drug price to a reasonable level and reduce the burden on patients, we need to work on the basis of drug circulation mechanism, drug independent property rights, drug regulatory mechanism, drug pricing mechanism and other basic issues This is the fundamental and effective way.
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