{"id":26804,"date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/medicines-secret-business\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:37:28","slug":"medicines-secret-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/medicines-secret-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicines: secret business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EN TRES MESES, ESTE GOBIERNO HA hecho m\u00e1s por enfrentar la crisis de la salud que lo que hizo el de Uribe durante ocho a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed lo muestra el proyecto de ley presentado ante el Congreso, que busca resucitar el moribundo sistema de salud.<\/p>\n<p>Pero el proyecto deja intacta una profunda herida por la que se puede seguir desangrando el paciente: el costo exorbitante de los medicamentos. De acuerdo con un estudio de Health Action International que compar\u00f3 el precio de un antibi\u00f3tico com\u00fan en 93 pa\u00edses, Colombia es el campe\u00f3n mundial de la carest\u00eda de las medicinas. Seg\u00fan lo han documentado la Federaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica Colombiana (FMC), Ifarma y Misi\u00f3n Salud, parte del descalabro financiero del sistema se debe al precio astron\u00f3mico de un pu\u00f1ado de medicamentos de marca, disparado a niveles inauditos por las EPS y otros intermediarios que los recobran al Estado. Como lo dice la FMC, este es el &#8220;s\u00edndrome de inmunodeficiencia recobrante&#8221;, el sida que carcome el sistema.<\/p>\n<p>Al ponerles coto a las tutelas y reemplazarlas con un POS actualizado y unos comit\u00e9s t\u00e9cnicos, el Gobierno ataca un flanco del s\u00edndrome. Pero tiene pendiente el tratamiento de la otra causa: los alt\u00edsimos precios de los medicamentos que pagan los pacientes y el Estado.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que, a menos de que el Gobierno le haga cirug\u00eda al r\u00e9gimen de precios y las dem\u00e1s gabelas que su antecesor otorg\u00f3 a la industria farmac\u00e9utica, la reforma servir\u00e1 apenas para tratar los s\u00edntomas. Mejor dicho: ser\u00eda como tratar el sida con ibuprofeno.<\/p>\n<p>El tema es complejo y tiende a ser cuesti\u00f3n de expertos. Habr\u00e1 entonces que dedicarle varias columnas y comenzar aqu\u00ed apenas con una lista telegr\u00e1fica de los principales l\u00edos:<\/p>\n<p>1) La ra\u00edz del problema es el r\u00e9gimen de libertad de precios decretado por la administraci\u00f3n Uribe en 2006, con base en un estudio financiado por las mismas compa\u00f1\u00edas farmac\u00e9uticas. Desde entonces, a pesar de los precios exorbitantes, s\u00f3lo un medicamento ha sido puesto en el r\u00e9gimen de libertad regulada, y ninguno en la lista de control directo.<\/p>\n<p>2) Como lo muestra un sesudo art\u00edculo de Francisco Rossi -director de la Fundaci\u00f3n Ifarma- la industria farmac\u00e9utica ha hecho fiestas con la desregulaci\u00f3n de precios. Adem\u00e1s de los acostumbrados patrocinios a congresos de asociaciones m\u00e9dicas, ha promovido sus productos mediante la &#8220;financiaci\u00f3n de asociaciones de enfermos, financiaci\u00f3n de oficinas especializadas en tutelas, y muy particularmente, una campa\u00f1a por desacreditar los (medicamentos) gen\u00e9ricos, en la medida en que en los recobros pudiera facturarse el producto de marca&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>3) Para tapar todo esto, los beneficiados y el pasado Gobierno tendieron un manto de secreto sobre el tema. Incre\u00edblemente -y en contrav\u00eda de la Constituci\u00f3n- el Gobierno se negaba a revelar los precios a los que pagaba los medicamentos. Finalmente lo hizo a mediados de a\u00f1o, obligado por una tutela de la FMC, a la que se opuso Afidro (la asociaci\u00f3n de farmac\u00e9uticas multinacionales). Adem\u00e1s, los actores del sistema de salud (EPS, farmac\u00e9uticas, hospitales, etc.) le vienen sacando el cuerpo a la obligaci\u00f3n de reportar esta informaci\u00f3n. Seg\u00fan El Tiempo, s\u00f3lo lo han hecho 164 de las 728 entidades obligadas.<\/p>\n<p>El Gobierno tiene a la mano las soluciones a semejante carrusel de privilegios y secretos. Ni siquiera necesitar\u00eda un nuevo proyecto de ley. Podr\u00eda simplemente derogar las reglas de libertad de precios de 2006 y reemplazarlas por otras de sentido com\u00fan y beneficio p\u00fablico, incluyendo medidas que en pa\u00edses como Brasil han mostrado su eficacia: negociaciones de medicamentos en grandes cantidades a precios favorables, importaciones paralelas de medicinas, licencias obligatorias y control de precios en casos especiales, todo aplicado mediante un sistema de vigilancia transparente y eficaz.<\/p>\n<p>El Gobierno tiene con qu\u00e9 y con qui\u00e9n detener la hemorragia. Confi\u00e9mos en que pronto lo haga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In three months, this administration has done more to address the health crisis than what Uribe did in eight years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Medicines: secret business - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medicines: secret business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In three months, this administration has done more to address the health crisis than what Uribe did in eight years.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-11-01T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:37:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e11b9e1e64bff54675fcc20f712051d0\"},\"headline\":\"Medicines: secret business\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-01T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:37:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/\"},\"wordCount\":678,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/medicamentos-negocio-redondo-y-secreto\/\",\"name\":\"Medicines: secret business - 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