{"id":28081,"date":"2013-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/government-companies-and-medicine-prices\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:59:24","slug":"government-companies-and-medicine-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/government-companies-and-medicine-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Government, companies and medicine prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Con rigor t\u00e9cnico y valent\u00eda pol\u00edtica, el Ministerio de Salud est\u00e1 enfrentando el poderoso lobby de las empresas farmac\u00e9uticas y poniendo techo a los precios exorbitantes de los medicamentos. <\/p>\n<p>El acertado control de precios que anuncia el ministro Gaviria le da la raz\u00f3n a la propuesta que durante una d\u00e9cada lider\u00f3 la Federaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica Colombiana y que otros ven\u00edamos secundando con base en estudios propios y ajenos.<\/p>\n<p>Pero si la medida ha sido tan bien recibida, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 no se tom\u00f3 antes? \u00bfQui\u00e9n permiti\u00f3 el abuso de los precios y qui\u00e9n se benefici\u00f3?<\/p>\n<p>Las respuestas se encuentran en el gobierno de \u00c1lvaro Uribe. En 2006, la Comisi\u00f3n de Regulaci\u00f3n de Precios de Medicamentos \u2014integrada por un delegado del presidente y los ministros de Salud y Comercio Exterior\u2014 expidi\u00f3 la medida que liber\u00f3 los precios (la Circular 04). De modo que si hay alg\u00fan responsable pol\u00edtico por los miles de millones de pesos que el Estado y los ciudadanos pagamos de m\u00e1s por medicamentos, son el ministro Diego Palacio y el gobierno anterior. Habr\u00eda que ver si su responsabilidad es tambi\u00e9n disciplinaria o penal, si la Procuradur\u00eda, la Contralor\u00eda o la Fiscal\u00eda adelantan las investigaciones pertinentes.<\/p>\n<p>Pero las empresas farmac\u00e9uticas tambi\u00e9n tienen mucho que explicar. Fueron ellas las que se beneficiaron de los inusuales precios, como lo explicaremos con Tatiana Andia en un blog en La Silla Vac\u00eda. Por ejemplo, las ventas de un solo medicamento de Roche (Rituximab, para el c\u00e1ncer y la artritis) le habr\u00edan reportado a la empresa en 2012 un ingreso de cerca de $29 mil millones por encima del que habr\u00eda recibido con el precio que acaba de fijar el Ministerio, seg\u00fan c\u00e1lculos del Observatorio del Medicamento.<\/p>\n<p>Con algo de raz\u00f3n, las empresas dir\u00e1n que s\u00f3lo siguieron las laxas reglas que les fij\u00f3 el Estado. As\u00ed lo hizo Abbott el a\u00f1o pasado, al defenderse exitosamente de una acci\u00f3n judicial relacionada con los precios exorbitantes de Kaletra, una droga para el tratamiento del sida. Pero esa no es toda la verdad, porque las farmac\u00e9uticas defendieron en\u00e9rgicamente el sistema anterior e hicieron todo lo posible para mantener ocultos los irrazonables precios. Basta recordar que, en 2010, Afidro (la asociaci\u00f3n de farmac\u00e9uticas multinacionales) interpuso una tutela para intentar bloquear la divulgaci\u00f3n de los precios a los que el Estado compraba los medicamentos.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso las medidas que est\u00e1 tomando el Gobierno actual son especialmente valiosas. Comenzando con la ministra Beatriz Londo\u00f1o y siguiendo con el ministro Gaviria, ha impulsado una pol\u00edtica p\u00fablica que incluye una regulaci\u00f3n razonable de los precios basada en comparaciones con otros pa\u00edses. De ah\u00ed el anuncio reciente de incluir casi 200 medicamentos en este sistema, que le ahorrar\u00eda cerca de $400.000 millones al sistema de salud.<\/p>\n<p>Tan importante como los precios m\u00e1ximos es el procedimiento transparente para fijarlos. En lugar de la opacidad de la informaci\u00f3n de la que medraban funcionarios venales y farmac\u00e9uticas en el gobierno previo, el Ministerio est\u00e1 haciendo p\u00fablicas todas las discusiones y las observaciones de las empresas y de la sociedad civil.<\/p>\n<p>No todo est\u00e1 solucionado. Falta ver la reacci\u00f3n de la industria, que dif\u00edcilmente va a renunciar a las ganancias a las que estaba habituada. Tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 por verse si los controles se traducen en precios menores en las droguer\u00edas. Pero hay razones para ser optimistas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With technical rigour and political courage, the Health Ministry is facing the powerful lobby of pharmaceutical companies and is establishing a roof for  exorbitant prices of drugs. <\/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":[1605],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","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>Government, companies and medicine prices - 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\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government, companies and medicine prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With technical rigour and political courage, the Health Ministry is facing the powerful lobby of pharmaceutical companies and is establishing a roof for exorbitant prices of drugs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/\" \/>\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=\"2013-07-30T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:59:24+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\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e11b9e1e64bff54675fcc20f712051d0\"},\"headline\":\"Government, companies and medicine prices\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-30T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:59:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/\"},\"wordCount\":598,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Issue-Economic Justice\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2013\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/gobierno-empresas-y-precios-de-los-medicamentos\/\",\"name\":\"Government, companies and medicine prices - 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