Mounjaro Hersteller sprengt Großbritannien als „schlechtestes Land in Europa“ für Arzneimittelpreise
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/mounjaro-eli-lilly-drug-prices-uk-b2832602.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
Mounjaro Hersteller sprengt Großbritannien als „schlechtestes Land in Europa“ für Arzneimittelpreise
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/mounjaro-eli-lilly-drug-prices-uk-b2832602.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
24 Kommentare
Love this. Yes, we are the worst for profit generation and the best for keeping prices honest. If you don’t like it, don’t sell it. But guess what?? You do like it! Because you do sell it! Who knew?!?!??!
> Dave Ricks, chief executive of the firm that makes Mounjaro, told the Financial Times that the UK pays less than other nations for its products and added, “unless that changes, I don’t think they will see many new medicines and I don’t think they will see much investment”.
So the UK and NHS are doing a good job not to get ripped off by these vultures and they moan about it.
Thing is they can squawk about it all they want, but a big part of the reason that the UK keeps drug prices so low is that the NHS is negotiating on behalf of a population of nearly seventy million people and economies of scale are real.
They complain about it publicly, and then agree to the lower prices anyway because a lower price for a larger patient cohort is still better economically.
People apparently we pay too little to drug companies on the open market, time to shut it all down and pay these vultures all our money.
Im not sure what their argument is, do we have to pay them more than they are willing to sell them to us for?
The Donald tells big Pharma move everything here or we tariff you back to the stone age, also sell your drugs to other countries at the same rate as you charge here to make the market even. Suddenly every drug company has a problem with the UK and I bet you can guess why.
Rather than drop prices in the US they want everyone else to pay way more, funny how these things work.
Is that the worse for patients or corporate profits?
He’s not wrong in a sense, we don’t have access to the cutting edge treatments available in other countries or the shortest wait times because through the NHS we don’t pay for it until it becomes viable from a costings stand point so we end up a few generations behind. Which I’m happy with as long as we as a collective are not getting ripped off and those edge case treatments can still be provided to those who truly need it.
I’d love for us to set up an Indian style generics drug maker for scenarios like this.
This article should be pinned to the wall of every meeting room in parliament so I can be pointed at any time anyone suggests that privatisation leads to greater efficiency and public ownership doesn’t.
Worst country for making leeches rich off overpriced drugs !! At least we are good at something and I take this as an absolute win
The UK should stand its ground! Healthcare costs per person in the US are over double those in the UK, with Americans often facing high out-of-pocket expenses. In the US, the high price of essential medicines like insulin has led to cases where people have died from diabetes, despite living in „The Greatest country on earth“
I know for a fact that these fuckers initially demand insane prices and then negotiate down 50+% to get access to millions of patients through the NHS. And presumably they still make a decent profit otherwise they wouldn’t bother.
This is called capitalism buddy. Don’t complain because it isn’t being rigged in your favour.
Thanks for confirming the government are doing a great job on this.
The Fanta Fuhrer literally doubled the price of Mounjaro and all of Eli Lilly’s other weight loss products to my knowledge and gets upset we push back. Now a lot of the UK is dropping it for other non-US products because it’s not worth the price compared to everything else available. When you paid £100 privately for something and it suddenly becomes £200-250 or so for the same thing almost overnight people are going to kick off.
Awww, diddums … yet I notice he’s still selling it here.
Somebody’s mad that everyone is switching to Wegovy after they hiked the price on mounjaro!
We pay too little?? Didn’t Mounjaro’s price just jumped 150% up? I expect most people stopped taking it, profit’s down and we get a tantrum. Fucking grow up
FTFY: Mounjaro manufacturer blasts UK as ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug ~~prices~~ profits.
I suddenly harbour an intense dislike for this awful company
Because our health system is based on health outcomes, not profit.
So it’s actually the best for the patient then just not for the billionaires trying to get more billions, i’m ok with that
„Warns that the UK will miss out on new drugs“.
No, no, no. This sort of disgusting, ultra-capitalist stance needs to be called out. Everything drug companies build – everything anyone ot any company ever builds or creates – is, inevitably and significantly, reliant on the current net „output“ of the accumulation of all human knowledge. You’re building on the shoulders of *everyone*.
Oh but we can’t have your shiny new drug in the UK because we’ve socialised medicine? What a disgusting, perverted, depressing, and selfish outlook.
I am revolted. This level of anger makes me feel French!
You mean the best because of collective bargaining (the NHS)
These are freaking liars. The UK government gives rebates for the new type of drugs for 5 to 10 years since they are introduced to the market. That is a minimum of 10%, which is outright profit. These leeches compare the profits against US and other profitable markets and think that the UK is bad.Overall, the UK market is good for pharmaceutical companies but the UK government did not give in to market greed.