The government intends to regulate the prices for medicines

The Government and the State Duma Committee on Health Protection develop an amendment to the bill "On the Condition of Medicines", which involves the introduction of state regulation of drug prices. This was reported by Izvestia.

“In the law, we will only prescribe the principles of prichandalization by the state, but the government will subsequently develop the methodology itself,” said Sergey Kalashnikov, chairman of the Duma Health Protection Committee. It is assumed that the technique will be formed with a focus on the reference price of the sale of a drug in the group of countries and with the establishment of a price barrier for each specific drug. The supplier who exceeded the maximum price will not be automatically allowed to the Russian market. According to legislators, this measure will help to avoid artificial overstatement of prices.

Currently, the state regulates prices only for vital and most important drugs. Their list is the government. It covers approximately a third of the drugs from the total drug market.

In February, the chief children's oncologist of Russia Vladimir Polyakov said that he expects problems with providing cancer patients with high -quality drugs . This situation may arise due to increasing medicines while maintaining previous financing for the purchase of medicines. According to Polyakov, the list of vital and most important drugs remained the same as it was in 2013. At the same time, there is a tendency to purchase domestic drugs. However, the chief pediatrician noted, a number of medicines are not performed in Russia.

Medicines are getting more expensive, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy them, Poles emphasized. "The amount of money allocated by the state for the purchase of these drugs remains the same, so the deficit will be certain," he said.

On September 19, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that state regulation of prices, in particular for food products, is a path to nowhere. At the same time, according to him, the authorities must monitor prices so that there are no distortions .

"The regulation of prices that some individual political forces support is nowhere to go to nowhere. We all went through it. At the same time, of course, the state is both at the federal level and at the level of law enforcement agencies, and at the regional level should follow distortions," Medvedev said.

Inflation in Russia accelerated sharply after the introduction of register on the import of food products from countries that adopted sanctions in connection with the situation in Ukraine.