THE LETTER
“THE LIST OF DRUGS THAT WAS FINALLY CLEARED BY CUSTOMS IS FULL OF OBSOLETE AND USELESS MOLECULES, WHICH NO ONE EVER ASKS, JUST TO CLEAN UP THE 'C' BAND AND LEAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT MOLECULES IN THE HANDS OF THE PHARMACIES”
In the not so distant 2005 Steve Jobs, at the time CEO of Apple, made a speech to the graduates of Stanford University, during which he pronounced these words: “Stay hungry, stay foolish”. Stay hungry, stay crazy. In this very harsh period of crisis, which has been dragging on for years now, these very popular words could serve as a warning to improve our condition and instead fall into the most absolute vacuum. The liberalizations seem dead, buried by fake provisions that only served to calm the minds of the most troublesome. Dead and buried, because whoever "liberalized" my sector, that of pharmacies, thinks they have made the market make that leap in quality, that they have given that driving force for growth and instead, in my opinion, they have only caused failures. There has been talk for weeks or even months of the liberalization of class C drugs, of the opportunity to be able to sell them also in parapharmacies, thus removing the monopoly from pharmacies, which until now had been the master. Nothing more false. The list of drugs that was finally cleared for "liberalization" is full of obsolete and useless molecules, which no one ever asks for, just to clean up band C and leave the most important molecules in the hands of pharmacies. The world of free enterprise does not help itself like this. Getting out of the stasis that accompanies the country is quite another thing. It requires courage, transparency and honesty, qualities that have not been revealed up to now, because not even a caretaker government has finally managed to displease the powers that be. It is these days the news that the "saline solution", in common use, can only be sold with a repeatable recipe. Then again a robbery of parapharmacies and the strengthening of an unfortunate monopoly, really hard to die. At this point I wonder what danger potential a saline solution could possess, such as to justify the presentation of a medical prescription. None, of course, but a similar provision is enough to gnaw at the already small amount of drugs that until now could be purchased in parapharmacies. A step back, small, but certainly not forward. No one talks about liberalization anymore, because everyone thinks they already have it
