1. Disrupt the pharmaceutical market and pose a threat to drug safety
The act of stealing tickets is actually an unlicensed operation of drugs under the guise of legality. The drugs they sell are all personal products. Purchasing with cash does not mean entering a pharmaceutical business, but merely borrowing the license and bills of a legal business. In this way, for those drugs that are sold through ticket sales, drug operating companies have no way to review the qualifications of the drug supply units, no way to inspect the quality of the drugs, and no way to ensure the safety of the drugs. It can be said that most of the counterfeit and substandard drugs enter the market and flow into the hands of consumers through ticket fraud.
2. Disrupting drug prices and harming consumers’ economic interests
The purpose of ticket sales is to obtain profits. In order to sell drugs without a license, criminals pass the drug business and then enter medical institutions. It can be said that they have gone to great lengths and paid a lot of money. In order to obtain profits, they are often shady and ruthless. The author once discovered during the investigation of ticket fraud that a ticket agent purchased 10,000 boxes of Shedan and Chuanbei capsules from a certain operating company at a price of 1.88 yuan per box. After exchanging a ticket from the ticket exchange company, less than one day later, The price of the drug at RMB 1.88 per box suddenly increased to RMB 6.54 per box, an increase of 3.48 times! The price of the entire order also changed from RMB 18,800 to RMB 65,400, with a price difference of RMB 46,600!
3. Breeds commercial bribery and harms patients’ economic and health interests
Most of the drugs sold through ticket sales are for clinical use. Clinical practice is a behavior in which drug dealers give doctors a certain amount of cash rebates based on the number of drugs they use. The purpose is to help doctors use more of the drugs they sell and obtain more benefits. Some doctors who lack medical ethics often prefer to use these drugs in order to obtain kickbacks. In order to get more kickbacks, they even prescribe a lot of drugs that patients can use or use without using them. In the process, patients suffer not only financial losses but interests, as well as patient health interests.