The Healthcare system
This article tells you about the statistics in the field of medicine in the United States and beyond. Let’s just get down to business.
The healthcare system
Health no shortage of frightening statistics about the US spending on health sphere. Here are some figures are “Express Skripts” – 13%. Exactly as increased investment of US citizens in the medical field as compared with 2013 year. This is a very high figure, and it can lead us to the sad consequences, especially when you consider what is happening real “baby boom”.
The best medicine – it’s expensive. Almost always it was in all spheres of life. Thanks to these drugs people are living longer. But they put more money into it.
A few years ago drugs were fairly simple in its composition, and they can be manufactured in different ways and to call the same medicine, but today the production of drugs is a very complex process, which costs a lot of money. The more complex the drug, the more difficult to extract its components. Of course they are more efficient than previous generations of products, but their development and production spending a lot of money pharmaceutical companies.
Despite the fact that these expensive drugs sold only 1% of the total number of recipes – they spent about 30% of total expenditure on medicines Americans. This is an incredible figure.
Costs
Across the tens of millions of health insurance members covered by Express Scripts pharmacy plans, spending on the average member climbed to $ 670.00 per year for traditional drugs and $ 320.00 for specialty medicines.
In the table below you can see that the cost of one American traditional medicine every year increased by about 6% and 30% special! US spending in 2014 on health care amounted to about 350 billion $.
If the increase in costs will continue with the same pace, then after 15 years, the US will spend on medicine about 3 000 000 000 000 $ per year! It’s an incredible amount of money.
The Consequences
Such a burst drug costs certainly jeopardize primarily of people with serious diseases such as cancer, HIV, and others.
At the moment, many vendors are trying to create new drugs reduce system development costs and production of drugs, as well as reducing their prices for consumers.
The results
So we can not say what will new developments in the field of medicine, but we can already say that the creators of medicines should first reduce their costs, and then the price on the shelves of pharmacies are also reduced.
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