The mainland's medical undertakings have undergone a series of drastic reforms, and have entered the deep-water area of reform, and many gratifying scenes and situations have emerged.
It has changed the status quo that it is difficult for the people to see a doctor, expensive to see a doctor, expensive to buy medicine, and cannot afford to eat, and medical insurance is the main body to escort public medical and health services.
However, there are still a lot of things that appear in the process of reform, which are unpleasant and difficult for the people to accept, which are very normal things, and I believe that with the gradual deepening of the mainland's medical reform, these abnormal phenomena will gradually disappear.
Recently, some netizens broke the news that on the e-commerce platform, they were very happy to be able to easily buy a "erythromycin ointment" for 3.60 yuan, but in the physical pharmacies on the offline street, the listed price of erythromycin ointment was as high as 39 yuan, which was 10 times the price of online medicine, which was too different, which is really incredible, hard to imagine, and it is incredible.
After this news was exposed on the Internet, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, which attracted great attention and heated discussions among the majority of netizens, and became a hot topic on the Internet recently.
Some netizens said: The levofloxacin eye drops he bought in online pharmacies cost more than two yuan, but in offline physical pharmacies, he bought them for 25 yuan and more than 20 yuan, which is far from the same.
Another netizen said that he bought a box of 999 cold spirit for 12.90 yuan on Meituan, and in the pharmacy at his doorstep, the listed price was sold for 59 yuan, which is unbelievable, it is incredible.
The netizen who broke the news on the online media to buy 3.60 yuan erythromycin ointment found that the offline physical pharmacy was clearly marked with a price of 39 yuan, and found the relevant parties with doubts and wanted to find the answer.
The reply he got was really surprising and incomprehensible, and the response from the relevant management, when confirming the pricing freedom of the merchant, was expressed as follows: "The merchant has the right to set the price of the product by himself, if it is a drug in the medical insurance, the drug you buy with the medical insurance card, this is the price of the medical insurance bureau." ”
And the relevant management also said: such a price is not illegal or illegal anyway, it is set by itself, that is, it can only be said that consumers themselves should pay more attention.
According to this logic, the physical pharmacies in the market sell drugs that are not within the scope of medical insurance reimbursement, and pharmacies already have their own pricing power, can they unscrupulously raise the price of drugs and sell them at sky-high prices? Isn't there any relevant laws and regulations to control the truth? Is it uncontrollable?
Erythromycin ointment, levofloxacin eye drops, 999 cold spirit and other drugs are not known whether they can be reimbursed by the medical insurance card, and the online drug price must be admitted, which is an objective fact that it is a little lower than the drug price sold in physical pharmacies on the market.
However, the prices of these drugs in physical pharmacies in the offline market cannot be compared with the prices of drugs sold online, which are frighteningly high, ridiculously high, unacceptably high for consumers, and so high that there is no reason at all.
In this case, in terms of relevant management, it is said that merchants and medical insurance have pricing power, why is there no control over management? No limits? It is no wonder that cancer treatment drugs that cost tens of dollars and hundreds of dollars can be sold at sky-high prices in hospitals, is this legal and compliant?
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