"They say that there is no money in health care, but it is not true. We spend 110 billion euros a year, only that health care is not managed well". This is the outburst of Silvio Gherardi, president and managing director of Baxter, who spoke in Paris at a conference organized to present the services offered by his company to haemophilia patients.
"We companies – Gherardi thunders – are the 16% of those 110 billion, yet they ask us to pay off the 50% of the breach of the roof". A bad job was done on the spending review. "We have to cut out something else - observes the president of Baxter - and go and see those general managers, an expression of politics and not of competence. There are 'political' managers whose only job is to raise cash, and not healthcare".
The main culprit is therefore politics, "which is using health care as an ATM and has not understood the value of having citizens in health. If this continues, Italy will very soon be cut off from the market for innovative drugs".
Gherardi's outburst is not aimed "only at Prime Minister Mario Monti", but rather at all those who have taken turns "in the last 10 years. Furthermore, we have never managed to have a dialogue with the institutions. This shows the stupidity of our politicians. We don't lockout, but we are certainly very disappointed".
July 13, 2012 – PharmaKronos
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