The PSOE proposes to reintroduce the generic drug auction, a model it is implementing Maria Jesus Montero In 2012, when she was Minister of Health, which was abolished by the government of Juanma Moreno after eight years. With recovery … From this controversial system, which it included in one of its amendments to the draft budget of the Andalusian Council for the year 2026, the Socialist Parliamentary Group estimates that it will obtain Additional income of 500 million euros.
This measure was created when the current Minister of Finance took charge of the Andalusian Public Health Department. The purpose was purely economic: to save pharmaceutical expenses through Awarding a list of the most commonly consumed medicines at public auction. Andalusians who have gone to the pharmacy with a prescription from the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) can purchase any of the active ingredients listed in the auction. They could not choose a particular brand if the laboratory that distributed it had not submitted to the SAS competition with lower bids.
It included the government of Juanma Moreno Suspension of auctions in its electoral program With which he ran in the elections of December 2, 2018 because, as he stated, it violates the freedom of prescriptions and the model that placed Andalusian patients and doctors in inequality with the rest of Spaniards.
The Constitutional Court upheld this controversial procurement method after Rajoy’s government appealed a case for alleged abuse of powers.
During the last legislative term (2019-2022), the Andalusian executive authority stopped calling for new auctions and waited for the contracts in force to expire. Certainly with the public procurement system This action took place in December 2020, thus avoiding economic sanctions on companies that obtained the concessions at that time.
Who was Minister of Health between 2004 and 2013Maria Jesús MonteroThe promoter of the pharmaceutical auctions asserted in 2012 that with this measure “we socialists intend to reduce the bill by reducing the profits of the pharmaceutical industry” compared to the model implemented by the communities then ruled by the Popular Party.
The central government, led by Mariano Rajoy (Popular Party), in 2012 denounced this measure It invaded the state’s powers regarding price setting. After four years of struggle, the Constitutional Court agreed with the regional executive of the Socialist Socialist Workers’ Party in December 2016 and approved this procurement method.