{"id":27386,"date":"2012-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/why-a-coffin-is-cheaper-than-a-medicine\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:46:21","slug":"why-a-coffin-is-cheaper-than-a-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/why-a-coffin-is-cheaper-than-a-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a coffin is cheaper than a medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La respuesta est\u00e1 saliendo a flote en estos d\u00edas, con ocasi\u00f3n de la acertada propuesta del Gobierno de abrir a la competencia el mercado de los medicamentos biotecnol\u00f3gicos. Las cr\u00edticas de las farmac\u00e9uticas multinacionales, que tienen el monopolio de esas drogas, han generado el efecto contrario al buscado: han puesto en evidencia las maniobras de esas compa\u00f1\u00edas y del gobierno anterior que dispararon los precios.<\/p>\n<p>Las razones que busca Gossa\u00edn se encuentran en dos lugares. El primero es el desastroso Ministerio de la Protecci\u00f3n Social de Diego Palacio, quien tiene tantas preguntas por responder como sus colegas del gobierno Uribe, que ya est\u00e1n en l\u00edos judiciales. Bajo su mandato se expidi\u00f3 la Circular 04 de 2006, que liber\u00f3 los precios de los medicamentos, incluyendo los de aquellos que son producidos s\u00f3lo por un fabricante.<\/p>\n<p>No hace falta ser economista para saber qu\u00e9 pasa con un monopolio sin control: desde 2007 se escalaron los precios y, con ello, las sumas que tuvo que pagar el Estado (es decir, nosotros, los contribuyentes) para cubrir las cuentas que le pasaban las EPS por medicamentos. Seg\u00fan un estudio reciente de Fedesarrollo, en 2009 el 87% de los recobros de las EPS al Estado correspondieron a este concepto. As\u00ed que la espiral de precios de las drogas estuvo detr\u00e1s de la explosi\u00f3n de los recobros, que se cuadruplicaron entre 2007 y 2010, cuando pasaron de $557.331 millones a $2.236.120 millones, seg\u00fan cifras de la Federaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica Colombiana (FMC).<\/p>\n<p>El descalabro era tal, que el ministro Palacio intent\u00f3 dar marcha atr\u00e1s en 2010, con unas medidas que permit\u00edan las importaciones de algunas de las drogas que se estaban vendiendo a precios mucho m\u00e1s altos que en el exterior. Extra\u00f1amente, la voluntad de enmienda le dur\u00f3 unas pocas semanas. Por ejemplo, aleg\u00f3 que hab\u00eda llegado a un acuerdo de rebaja de precios con Roche \u2014la compa\u00f1\u00eda productora de algunos de los medicamentos m\u00e1s recobrados, como rituximab (un biotecnol\u00f3gico para tratamientos contra la artritis y el linfoma)\u2014 y sac\u00f3 los productos de Roche de la lista de los que ser\u00edan importados.<\/p>\n<p>Lo cual nos lleva al segundo lugar, donde est\u00e1 la respuesta: las compa\u00f1\u00edas que se habr\u00edan beneficiado de semejante pol\u00edtica. Para seguir con el caso del rituximab, estudios de la FMC sugieren que las ventas de ese medicamento subieron de $15.600 millones en 2007 a $94.000 millones en 2009. As\u00ed que Roche y el gremio de las farmac\u00e9uticas internacionales, en lugar de estar pidiendo explicaciones a Fedesarrollo y a la valiente ministra de Salud, deber\u00edan estar d\u00e1ndolas por su dudoso papel en el carrusel de las medicinas.<\/p>\n<p>El problema es que Roche y el gremio no quieren entregar los datos que aclarar\u00edan lo que pas\u00f3. Por eso, en \u00faltimas, ser\u00e1 en los estrados judiciales donde se encuentre la respuesta que busca Gossa\u00edn. En efecto, la FMC tuvo que poner una tutela para averiguar los precios que negoci\u00f3 el ministro Palacio con Roche en 2010. A pesar de que las drogas fueron pagadas con dineros p\u00fablicos, la compa\u00f1\u00eda y el Ministerio de Palacio alegaron que la informaci\u00f3n de los precios era \u201csecreto industrial\u201d. Pero la Corte Constitucional acaba de fallar a favor de la FMC y orden\u00f3 revelar los precios.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que pronto sabremos c\u00f3mo fue el negocio. Tambi\u00e9n por qu\u00e9 las farmac\u00e9uticas monop\u00f3licas y las asociaciones de pacientes que financian se oponen a la regulaci\u00f3n moderada de los biotecnol\u00f3gicos que propone el Gobierno, que garantiza tanto la seguridad de las drogas como su precio razonable. Y, volviendo a Gossa\u00edn, al menos quedar\u00e1n m\u00e1s claras \u201clas injusticias de un pa\u00eds donde una caja mensual de medicina cuesta m\u00e1s que una caja de difunto\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question being asked by Juan Gossa\u00edn in his recent chronicle of medicines in Colombia, much more expensive than in other countries. 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