{"id":15155,"date":"2012-07-30T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/spending-review-lavori-a-rilento-in-senato-nodo-farmaci\/"},"modified":"2012-07-30T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:30:00","slug":"spending-review-lavori-a-rilento-in-senato-nodo-farmaci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/spending-review-lavori-a-rilento-in-senato-nodo-farmaci\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending review, slow work in the Senate, drug node"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 9pt; background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT\">Monday 30 July 2012 17:14<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">ROME, July 30 (Reuters) - Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has slowed down the examination of the decree law on the spending review in the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">According to parliamentary sources, the government has not yet filed the maxi-amendment on which it will raise the question of trust due to the ongoing confrontation on two delicate chapters of the decree: the cut in pharmaceutical spending and the obligation to prescribe only the active ingredient in medical prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">A partial confirmation comes from the Undersecretary for Relations with Parliament, Antonio Malaschini, who asked and obtained the suspension of the sitting until 6.00 pm.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">In the text approved by the commissions, the decree increases the obligatory discount that pharmacies apply to the national health service to 2.25% from 1.82%. For pharmaceutical companies, the discount passes to 4.1% from 1.83%.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Furthermore, the decree obliges the doctor who treats a patient for the first time to indicate in the research only the active ingredient contained in the drug. If, on the other hand, he decides to prescribe a specific medicine, the doctor must justify the choice with a &quot;brief written justification&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-outline-level: 2; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\">Spending review. Start the exam in the classroom. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt\">Waiting for trust. Possible maxi-amendment<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The Assembly of Senators this morning began the discussion on the text approved by the Budget Commission on Friday night. But there is also talk of a maxi-amendment by the Government on which fi will be placed<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>luned&igrave; 30 luglio 2012 17:14 ROMA, 30 luglio (Reuters) &#8211; L&#8217;operazione di lobbying delle case farmaceutiche rallenta l&#8217;esame del decreto legge sulla revisione della spesa nell&#8217;aula del Senato. Secondo quanto riferiscono fonti parlamentari, il governo non ha ancora depositato il maxiemendamento sul quale porr&agrave; la questione di fiducia per via del confronto ancora in atto &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}