[e-drug] drug prices and health insurance in India

["Lalitha Narayanan" <lalitha_narayanan@hotmail.com>]

E-DRUG: drug prices and health insurance in India
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[please realize that this is a global email platform, so that non-Indian e-druggers might not know what is playing in the background. Can anyone provide the background to this discussion. And how affordable is half of the MRP? Can someone compare it to the median MSH price indicator 2006 (available online at http://erc.msh.org/) Thanks, Wilbert Bannenberg, moderator]

dear friends:

The e-pharmabiz of 9th August carries a news item wherein it is stated that the pharmaceutical industry in principle has agreed to the govt of India's proposal to supply drugs at half the price of MRP to the Below poverty line families as part of the health insurance. 

If it takes place, it would be have lot of positive spiraling effects as we know drugs account for major expenditure in any illness episodes.

with regards

lalitha
Dr. N. LALITHA 
Associate Professor 
Gujarat Institute of Development Research 
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