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    Germany: the new government will continue to impose compulsory discounts on drugs after its establishment

    • Last Update: 2013-11-06
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Source: International Online 2013-11-6 according to Der Spiegel, Germany, November 4, 2013, a cabinet negotiation between the German Federal Party (CDU / CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is under way Both sides said that the future coalition government will continue to impose mandatory discounts on drugs, despite strong opposition from the pharmaceutical industry In addition, the two sides have reached agreement on the basic points of future economic policies According to the report, the mandatory discount would have stopped at the end of this year, but before that, some health policy experts said they hoped to postpone it Now the coalition party and the SPD have finally reached an agreement, saying in Berlin on the evening of November 4 that they will stick to the mandatory discount and keep it at 7% During the period of the coalition party and the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP), the German government stipulated that the price of prescription drugs should be maintained at the standard of August 1, 2009; in addition, a 10-year compulsory discount has been implemented, which has increased from 6% to 16%.
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