Fair drug price manipulated to unprecedented heights
Pharma industry manipulates' fair 'medicine price to priceless heights.
The Medicine Mafia | Dodelijke medicijnen en georganiseerde misdaad. Medications are the leading cause of death after cancer and cardiovascular diseases. This should give rise to a national health alert and a parliamentary survey on the government that has handed over the health of citizens to the pharmaceutical industry. Instead, officials of the Ministry “legs on the table” consult with representatives of industry.
Ministers sign contracts in which they promise to keep the agreements on the prices of new medicines secret. Danish physician and researcher Peter Gotzsche, who worked for many years in the pharmaceutical industry, shows that this industry is fooling not only patients but also doctors with fraudulent practices. 'It takes a lot of courage to become whistleblower, 'says Gotzsche.
Priceless medicines: a problem that affects more and more global citizens. Because of the high cost, drugs do not end up with who needs them most. 'Advanced treatments quickly cost tens of thousands of euros per person per year', says Dominiek Veen, politician and co-initiator of License to Heal. In the wealthy Netherlands, too, high prices lead to problems.
