MEDICINE PRICES: COMPROMISE IN THE BACKGROUND

The government wants to restore higher medicine prices (which means a more than 17,7 pc raise), that is why it has not agreed to decide this week about the freezing of the prices in parliament, Hír TV has been informed.

On the website of the news channel the documents can be seen about this nearly concluded compromise between the government and the medicine manufacturers. On the stage, however, the play is going on though the contract says clearly that medicine prices will be restored on the level of March, 2004 which means a more than 17,7 pc raise. The government wishes even to grant a calculable profit for the medicine producers in 2005 and 2006.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó