Without Health Insurance, drug prices can not be controlled

As long as the price of drugs released into a free market then the prices will be difficult to control. Similarly, the doctor-pharmaceutical collusion. There will be no effect of drug price regulation on the affordability of the community against drugs, except through social health insurance plans that covers the entire population.

It is said by analysts insurance. According to him, due to the medical knowledge gap in developing countries, causing people do not have the control to determine the drugs used thus depends on the doctor chose.

For that, should there be a body that acts for the public interest in suppressing the price of drugs. In developed countries, are instrumentalities of social health insurance. Pharmaceutical companies could lower drug prices because there is a definite market (insurance) and do not need to spend money promoting ethical drugs (drugs that can only be used by prescription) to the doctors.

The Asian countries that implement social health insurance for individuals, among others, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, and South Korea.

But in some other countries such as Indonesia, the health insurance for people not protect the entire population of the poor. Several types of drugs not included in the list covered. As a result, patients with certain diseases susceptible to the impact high prices of medicines. Drugs that are not covered, usually severe disease medications, such as postoperative cardiac drugs.