Health & Beauty

In mid-July this year, my country’s fifth batch of nationally organized drug procurement results was officially announced. 61 drugs were successfully purchased, with an average price reduction of 56%, including drugs for common diseases and chronic diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. Many netizens said that this is of great significance to the survival of classic cheap drugs.

The so-called cheap medicine is the basic medicine that people need in daily life. It is a medicine that can meet basic medical and health needs, has suitable dosage form, guaranteed supply, can be equipped at the grassroots level, and can be fairly obtained by the people. The main characteristics are safety, necessity, effectiveness, and low price. . Such as licorice tablets, paracetamol, chlorpheniramine, yeast tablets, three yellow tablets, red syrup... These drugs are well-known to some middle-aged and elderly consumers and feel that they are cheap and easy to use, but they seem to be gradually fading out of public view in recent years.

Analyzed according to normal market rules, cheap drugs have obvious price advantages compared with their high-priced alternatives, and the market space is huge. The reason why they become "endangered" varieties is due to poor sales and rising prices of raw materials. In addition, the real reason behind it is nothing more than the fact that the company feels that the profit is thin, so it uses various reasons to suppress the scale of production or stop the production of these cheap drugs in order to seek higher profits.

To bring cheap drugs back to the public's vision, the government and the market must work together. For this reason, consider including some cheap medicines that are in short supply and low production efficiency into the national essential medicine guarantee system so that patients can buy them at any time at community health service centers; at the same time, it may as well give enterprises that produce cheap medicines licenses, loans, and Policies on taxation and other links are inclined to include safe and practical cheap medicines into dynamic supervision, so as to achieve the best financial and medical insurance. Of course, hospitals and doctors need to rectify their values, not to be dazzled by economic interests, and to create a relatively healthy living space for cheap drugs as much as possible.