Article published in the EU Reporter (January-February2007, p. 30). In their endeavor to cut back on costs, public health systems throughout Europe resort more and more to drug delisting. Beyond the fact that they may prove to be inefficient, these measures also reflect an alarming trend towards bureaucratization of healthcare by these monopolistic schemes. France provides a fitting example of this trend.
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9 January 2007 – Since 1945-46, the French system of Social Security has been imposing a mandatory health insurance and thus has a captive clientele – as the insured are compelled to finance it. This system has been, and is still, justified in a great measure in the opinion of the general public on grounds that it allegedly leads the French people to become equal in health and provides financing…
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December 11, 2006 – Doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other health care workers in Germany have been strongly protesting against the new cost containment health care reform. « This reform will simply lead the healthcare system into the cul-de-sac of centralized bureaucracy », according to their last joint statement during the national strike on December, 4, 2006. “The main effects of reference pricing are very similar: it ends up with a bureaucratization of…
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