Pharmaceutical. M5s: "Lobby stronger than the Government, absent spending review on sector expenditure"

For the pentastellati deputies of the Social Affairs commission, the Ministry of Health and Aifa are "aware and therefore responsible" for the deficit in pharmaceutical spending. "We need an immediate turnaround and for this reason the M5S will present a motion for the reform of pharmaceutical governance".

18 FEB – “The errors of AIFA, certified by the Lazio TAR, regarding the Pay Back of pharmaceutical expenditure are worth more than 2 billion. This is the result of governance, too accommodating towards the powerful Big Pharma lobby, which is resulting in a system that is no longer able to respond to the needs of patients.

(… continue on dailyhealth of 18 February 2016)

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