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List of drug prices
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Drug prices are established mostly by the [[Pharmaceutical industry|Big Pharma]] companies in America and Europe, and those prices are transmitted, when they manage to do so, to other countries.<ref name=Pasternak2016/>
== Overview ==
Drug prices are established mostly by the [[Pharmaceutical industry|Big Pharma]] companies in America and Europe, and those prices are transmitted, when they manage to do so, to other countries.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> New drugs for hepatitis C, monoclonal antibodies used in cancer therapy or new inhibitors of kinases also used for cancer treatment, are examples of very expensive drugs.<ref name=Pasternak2016/>
Some societies like the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) try to evaluate what they call "the real value of a drug".<ref name=Pasternak2016/> They elaborate tables comparing quality of life and survival years added when a drug is used, and check if the price of the drug correlates with those measures.<ref name=Pasternak2016/>
Cancer treatment is getting more and more expensive and this trend does not show any evidence of abating, causing distress for patients.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> The national health system of Great Britain has an organ to decide which drugs the system will have and, consequently, which drugs patients shall receive.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> Very expensive monoclonal antibodies, for instance, are available in Great Britain, but they are not available in the public system, in which other medicines are offered without cost to the patients.<ref name=Pasternak2016/>
Big Pharma companies justify the new drug prices increase for paying research and developing of medicines.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> Drug market is not exactly an open market with lots of concurring actors; there are monopolies and duopolies on many drugs.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> Investing resources and research in new drug research is partly true, but not the whole history: most of new drugs are discovered and tested in phases 1 and 2 at small firms or universities, and Big Pharma gobbles the most promising of them.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> We do not know the real costs of drug development, as Big Pharma does not furnish their data, but it is possible to suppose that there is a sizable interest on those costs.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> One recent example of Big Pharma social conscience was Daraprim®.<ref name=Pasternak2016/> This old drug was about US[[United States dollar|$]]13.00 per pill and when one a Big Pharma bought the manufacture, the price changed for around US$700,00 per pill… in an old, venerable drug that has been in the market for years…<ref name=Pasternak2016></ref>
== O ==
*[[Onasemnogene abeparvovec]] is priced at US[[United States dollar|$]]2.125 million for a one-time treatment.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== References ==
[[:Category:Pharmaceuticals policy]]
[[:Category:Health policy in the United States]]
[[:Category:Healthcare reform in the United States]]
[[:Category:Pharmacy in the United States]]
[[:Category:Drug pricing]]
[[:Category:Social problems in medicine]]
November 17, 2019 at 03:19AM
