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Greek prosecutor orders investigation into shortage of medicines in Greece
ekathimerini.com ^ | Monday December 24, 2012 (09:52)

Posted on 12/25/2012 5:29:12 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin

Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes has ordered an investigation into whether pharmaceutical companies or pharmacists have been complicit in creating a shortage of medicines in Greece on purpose.

Tentes has asked all of Greece’s appeals court prosecutors to probe the allegations after SYRIZA MP Panayiotis Kouroublis brought up the matter in Parliament.

Tentes wants to know if patients have been unduly exposed to illnesses as a result of market players creating shortages of drugs.

Meanwhile, the Athens Medical Association (ISA) has filed an appeal with the Council of State, Greece’s top administrative court, against the government’s decision in November to make doctors issue prescriptions based on the active ingredient of the drugs the patients must take.

Greece is trying to increase its use of generic medicines to reduce its drugs bill in the public healthcare sector.


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1 posted on 12/25/2012 5:29:19 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin

It was ever thus:
1. Socialists wreck the free market economy.
2. Socialists blame the free market for shortages.


2 posted on 12/25/2012 5:37:07 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Greece is trying to increase its use of generic medicines to reduce its drugs bill in the public healthcare sector.

Methinks they are trying to reduce their supply of old people on government pensions.

3 posted on 12/25/2012 5:40:24 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

This was covered months ago. There is no “shortage “. The govt-run system is not paying its bills to the pharmaceutical companies. You can get all the stuff you want IF you pay cash.


4 posted on 12/25/2012 5:42:46 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize - Voltaire)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

What part of “WE BLEW ALL THE MONEY” do’t they (we) understand??


5 posted on 12/25/2012 5:44:52 AM PST by Flintlock (PARANOIA--means having all the facts.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Ha ha ha! Might as well investigate why a shortage of anything else.


6 posted on 12/25/2012 5:49:23 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: SauronOfMordor
You got it Sauron.

Since this case is solved, can we collect the money they were going to spend on this investigation? I'll split it with you.

7 posted on 12/25/2012 6:20:50 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

The “investigation” can only reveal the failure of socialism, therefore they will simply play a blame game. Paging George Bush...


8 posted on 12/25/2012 6:22:26 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob
The “investigation” can only reveal the failure of socialism, therefore they will simply play a blame game. Paging George Bush...

The purpose of the investigation is to find a scapegoat who will divert attention away from government failures.

9 posted on 12/25/2012 6:24:49 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Travis McGee

Investigation over. You are the best.


10 posted on 12/25/2012 6:24:55 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: FatherofFive; bmwcyle
The only "new generic meds" the old Greek folks are going to get will be for pain, and then for euthanasia.
11 posted on 12/25/2012 6:37:32 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
Well...I guess doctors will follow the lead of UK National Health doctors who are prescribing water to prevent forced dehydration of old, infirm and cases of severe injury...
12 posted on 12/25/2012 6:48:11 AM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Emmanuel Goldstein did it, of course....


13 posted on 12/25/2012 6:55:16 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
I'll do my own invetigation, it'll take two seconds.

Price controls by government.

Investigation over. Government is always the cause of shortages.

14 posted on 12/25/2012 7:49:36 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Drug shortages in the US are getting dangerous. Here is a list of the current FDA drug shortages:

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugShortages/ucm050792.htm

Many of these are generic drugs with a low profit margin because they are out of patent. However, many are vital to those who need them.

A solution to this may be found at the state level, with a state offering incentives for “micro drug manufacture”, for the needs of the citizens of that state, with a small subsidy to provide them enough profit margin to function, and so that they cannot be put out of business by being undersold, just to put them out of business.

While they could also produce enough to export to other states, these would not be subsidized by their home state, but by those other states.

In effect, this would defeat the non-producing drug oligopoly, that insists on huge profit margins, and will kill other, smaller companies, but will not produce drugs with too small a profit margin.

The concept is based on intrastate gun and ammunition production. Importantly, the most states can do is to change the law to permit and encourage this, providing only a small subsidy to support it.


15 posted on 12/25/2012 9:16:10 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Wow, paging Sherlock Holmes on this one.

Who will ever solve this amazing mystery?


16 posted on 12/25/2012 11:52:46 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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