{"id":15478,"date":"2012-09-27T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/svizzera-cinsiglio-nazionale-dalla-parte-dellindustria-su-prezzi-medicamenti\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:30:00","slug":"svizzera-cinsiglio-nazionale-dalla-parte-dellindustria-su-prezzi-medicamenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/svizzera-cinsiglio-nazionale-dalla-parte-dellindustria-su-prezzi-medicamenti\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss. National Council on the side of the industry on drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">BERN \u2013 With 99 votes to 67 and two abstentions, the National Council adopted a motion this morning which forces the Federal Council to review its recent decisions to bring down the price of medicines. For the majority of deputies, the pharmaceutical industry must enjoy greater prerogatives. The Council of States has yet to pronounce.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The text, drawn up by the National Commission for Social Security and Health (CSS), calls for greater collaboration between the Federal Council and the pharmaceutical industry. It instructs the government to find, together with the insurers and drug manufacturers, a &quot;consensual solution concerning the examination of the economic nature of medicines&quot;, explained Ignazio Cassis (PLR\/TI) on behalf of CSS.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">On 21 March, the government revised the methods for comparing the tariffs of Swiss medicines with those applied abroad. Comparison with equivalent products was limited. It will only happen if the Swiss medicine is not available in the comparator country, which is rare.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Cassis recalled that the motion was drawn up in the midst of the economic crisis when the pharmaceutical industry had to deal with a significant drop in turnover due to the collapse of the euro against the franc. The majority of CSS do not understand the &quot;lonely path&quot; chosen by the government in the face of the desire of industry and health insurers to seek consensual solutions.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">A minority opposed increased support for the pharmaceutical industry in vain. Jacqueline Fehr (PS\/ZH) provocatively asked whether an industry which offers very high salaries to executives, whose turnover is growing and which pays substantial dividends to shareholders really needs help from the state<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #565656; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #565656; font-size: 9pt\">News of 09\/27\/2012 \u2013 <\/span><span class=\"oranews1\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #c00000; font-size: 9pt\"><font style=\"background-color: #e4e4e4\">business.tio.ch<\/font><\/span><\/span><span","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERNA &#8211; Con 99 voti contro 67 e due astensioni il Consiglio nazionale ha adottato stamane una mozione che costringe il Consiglio federale a rivedere le sue recenti decisioni per fare diminuire il prezzo dei medicamenti. Per la maggioranza dei deputati l&#8217;industria farmaceutica deve godere di maggiori prerogative. Il Consiglio degli Stati deve ancora pronunciarsi. &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-15478","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\/15478","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=15478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/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=15478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}