Hello everyone, today I want to talk about the issue of domestic drugs. The story takes place a few years ago, when there was a movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine" that attracted a lot of attention. The movie tells the story of the protagonist who violates the law by reselling drugs from India in order to help cancer patients buy cheap generic drugs. Although he was sentenced to prison in the end, people felt warm in their hearts when they saw the scene of the send-off procession.
However, the reality is cruel and unforgiving. In a certain disease, there is only one drug that can be **, and this drug is monopolized by capital. In pursuit of high profits, the highest level of drugs is constantly increasing, making it difficult for people to afford them. One of the drugs for injection is called polymyxin sulfate B, which is a specific drug for some two bacterial infections, and there is currently no other alternative. The production of this drug is monopolized by four companies, of which Shanghai Pharmaceutical's subsidiary Shangyao Biochemical is responsible for production, and the other three Hubei pharmaceutical companies are responsible for raw material procurement and sales, all of which have the same boss behind them. Due to the irreplaceability of this drug, the price of each drug is as high as 2,300 yuan, and according to the data of the Shanghai Market Supervision Bureau, the average foreign ** is only 65 yuan, which is equivalent to a 40-fold increase. Some family members complained online that his father needed five pills a day, but could not afford it. So someone suggested that he buy imported medicines, which only cost three or four hundred yuan each. It can be said that the pricing of domestic drugs is much higher than that of imported drugs, which is really a terrible thing.
How do these four companies work?The boss of Hubei buys raw materials from abroad, buys them at a rate of more than 80 per gram, and then buys them at 1 per gram80,000 to 350,000 ** sold to the only domestic manufacturer that can produce this drug, Shangyao Biochemical for processing. However, due to the implementation of the two-invoice system for medical insurance, enterprises cannot blatantly increase the price of ** sales. As a result, the Hubei boss set up many vest companies to increase prices internally and gradually increase the quality of drugs. This outrageous behavior is outrageous.
It is also difficult to escape the blame for the biochemistry of medicine. Seeing that the bosses in Hubei were making so much money, they also raised the processing fee, from the original 140 to 200, and in January this year it rose to 230. Incredibly, this increase in processing fees alone is enough to buy a few pills abroad. The ** price of a drug has risen from 65 yuan to 2300 yuan, which is a defiance of the law, how terrible!
* After that, the regulatory authorities discovered the problem in a timely manner and imposed fines on the relevant enterprises. Based on the fine of 3% of the revenue and sales of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Biochemical, the total fine is 4600 million. Three companies in Hubei were also fined nearly 800 million. This result is reassuring. At present, at the request of the Medical Insurance Bureau, they have applied to reduce the ** of the drug from 2,300 yuan to 270 yuan, a decrease of nearly 90%, which is really emotional. Although these companies have been fined more than 1 billion yuan by the regulatory authorities, whether their actions have violated the criminal law still needs to be judged by professionals.
Marx once said that 20% of the profit will shake capital, 50% of the profit will make capital risky, 100% of the profit will make capital risk the hanging, and 300% of the profit will make capital trample on all laws. We need to think about whether the pharmaceutical industry should be more strictly regulated to protect people's health rights.
This is my thinking on the issue of domestic drugs, and I hope to attract more people's attention and attention.