2023-08-22 14:00:46
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Tears from the labs
While the Julyists were taking a well-deserved vacation, there was a squabble in Paris. The belligerents? The powerfull lobby of pharmaceutical laboratories, Leemagainst the senators Sonia de la Provôté (centrist) and Laurence Cohen (communist), respectively president and rapporteur of the senatorial commission of inquiry into the shortage of medicines. The lobby was outraged by the conclusions of this commission of inquiry… and for good reason. Not only the Senate report was very critical of the pharmaceutical industry but he succeeded, something extremely rare, in bringing together all the political groups in the Senate, from the right and the left, around a common observation.
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Firstly, this report emphasizes that “ the negotiation between public authorities and large laboratories is structurally unbalanced: threats of stopping marketing […] or denial of early access are weapons of choice in the hands of operators. The result of this price blackmail, encouraged by the financialization of laboratories, is an explosion in prices in favor of innovative treatments. “. The report states that “ pharmaceutical manufacturers plan to abandon the production of nearly 700 drugs, including MITMs (drugs of major therapeutic interest) “and that one”laboratory which develops a drug as a monopoly has, in fact, a right of life or death over patients “It was too much for the lobby which, the next day, July 7, accused Laurence Cohen, the rapporteur, of having instructed in their regard, “a trial of cynicism ” et “ is indignant “of his remarks, evoking statements which denote”an ideological approach, which purely and simply denies the therapeutic contribution of a new drug “, accusing Ms. Cohen of having had “hurtful comments which do not reflect the reality of the 103,000 French employees in the pharmaceutical industry who are mobilizing for the health of patients “.
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By targeting only the rapporteur, the lobby must have considered that this was the right exit strategy from the crisis. This is to forget, as the commission replied, that “the report does not reflect the personal position of the rapporteur […] but that of the entire commission “. Against the shortage, Leem has put forward a solution. For “make the drug economic model profitable “, he calls “lth government to […] concretize the announced measures to increase the price of certain mature drugs “. Increase the price of medicines to combat their shortage, that’s not cynicism. No way.
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