{"id":17806,"date":"2014-03-20T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/perche-le-medicine-costano-tanto\/"},"modified":"2014-03-20T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:30:00","slug":"perche-le-medicine-costano-tanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/perche-le-medicine-costano-tanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do medicines cost so much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rg_i\" name=\"7v_nMO6tBozg7M:\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKpSHNFRSLz1GFjG6JZMCV3NkHFIlYTVtei_6pfNuV5zmsVg9VNw\" data-sz=\"f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKpSHNFRSLz1GFjG6JZMCV3NkHFIlYTVtei_6pfNuV5zmsVg9VNw\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; width: 362px; height: 139px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: -77px\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt\">The justification adopted by pharmaceutical companies is that research, experimentation and those to obtain the necessary authorizations are very expensive: often over 700 million euros for each drug.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt\">The high price serves to recover these expenses before the patent or exclusive marketing rights expire: all pharmaceutical companies are accountable to shareholders and thus charge whatever price the market can support.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt\">The actual cost of manufacturing is relatively low, so once patents expire, competition between manufacturers drives down the price of drugs.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT\">2014-03-01 \u2013 Science World Focus Questions and Answers <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp; <img","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; La giustificazione adottata dalle societ&agrave; farmaceutiche &egrave; che le attivit&agrave; di ricerca, sperimentazione e quelle per ottenere le autorizzazioni necessarie sono molto costose: spesso oltre 700 milioni di euro per ogni farmaco. Il prezzo alto serve a rientrare di queste spese prima che scadano il brevetto o i diritti di commercializzazione esclusiva: tutte le &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-17806","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\/17806","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=17806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17806\/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=17806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}