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"Mr President, here we have another example of fairy-tale economics. We do not simply conjure money into the Commission to enable Member States to work harder in their health systems to get access to medicine. That money has to come from the Member States: it does not go round and round and multiply magically.
Access to medicines is an economic issue. The pricing and reimbursement of medicines within the EU is a Member State competence under Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This Parliament is not the appropriate forum for this discussion. Each Member State has its own unique healthcare system with varying degrees of state funding for reimbursement. It is the responsibility of the individual Member States to use their bargaining power to keep these costs as low as possible. This is to enable their own health services to work better. Nobody is pretending that that is easy, but each Member State must prioritise funding on the basis of its own national plans, and sometimes tough decisions have to be made. There is no evidence anywhere to suggest that transferring this competence to the EU would produce any improvement at all. Probably exactly the opposite would happen.
These budgets should remain in the hands of Member State governments – governments which are directly elected by their citizens rather than run by officials here in Brussels. We should be debating the economic health of Europe: ensuring thriving economies that can afford the best of health for their citizens."@en1
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