Little girl asked me Denmark, Norway, Finland how to make medicine, medical supplies will also continue to, continue to reduce prices, how to answer more appropriate?

Denmark, Norway, Finland is a typical Nordic welfare state, all Finnish citizens are entitled to health insurance. Finnish citizens in the hospital after the visit, with a doctor's prescription to the pharmacy to buy drugs, and according to the health insurance to enjoy the Finnish social insurance institutions to provide subsidies for the cost of medicines. However, the increasing costs of medicines have placed a heavy burden on both the State and patients. In order to save medicine expenses, Finland has implemented the new Medicine Act since April 2003, and adopted the measure of replacing expensive medicines with cheaper ones, and in April 2009, Finland further strengthened the practice of replacing expensive medicines with cheaper ones by adopting the reference price mechanism of medicines while expanding the scope of replacing medicines, which has received remarkable results. (Half-Moon Talk Internal Edition, Issue 3, 2012)

The burden of medical expenses is increasing

In Finland, subsidies for medicines are divided into two categories: subsidies for basic medicines and subsidies for special medicines. The basic drug subsidy means that when an ordinary patient buys drugs in a pharmacy with a prescription, he or she has to pay 10 euros out-of-pocket for drugs each time, and the Finnish Social Insurance Institution grants a 42% subsidy on the cost of drugs for the part that exceeds 10 euros. The special drug subsidy is divided into two levels: patients with severe chronic diseases, such as diabetes or cancer, pay only 3 euros out of their own pocket for medicines when they buy medicines with a prescription, and the part of the medicines that exceeds 3 euros is fully subsidized by the Finnish Social Insurance Institution; patients with other chronic diseases, such as hypertension, asthma and heart disease, pay only 5 euros out of their own pocket for medicines when they buy medicines with a prescription, and the part of the medicines that exceeds 5 euros is subsidized by the Finnish Social Insurance Institution at a rate of 72 per cent. The Finnish Social Insurance Institution subsidizes 72 per cent of the cost. If a patient's yearly medication costs more than 672.70 euros, the excess is fully compensated by the insurance organization, and the patient only needs to pay 1.5 euros of the **** burden each time he or she purchases medication.