The reason why medicine is not profiteering is because consumers (or patients) don't understand the industry.
In fact, the medicine we are talking about should contain both medical and pharmaceutical aspects.
But just because of our system, medicine cannot be separated, resulting in profiteering in certain segments.
I have been engaged in pharmaceutical wholesaling for 6 years, for our commercial company, the profit of the sale of drugs is high gross profit if it is more than 5%, ask which industry can have such a low profit.
Combined with the backwardness of the current business management model, we often say that we are senior porters.
And the pharmacy now the average gross profit will not be more than 20%, in some big cities even lower. In other industries, the absolute gross profit of terminal sales is more than 20%.
Why do people still say that drugs are expensive?
The reason is that hospitals, hospitals, expensive varieties in the pharmacy is not sold, the doctor's gray income depends on the prescription of expensive drugs.
And the patient in order to timely access to medical treatment, not to mention the price cut, not even the possibility of choosing similar varieties, of course, this is a very professional thing, and there is no opportunity to choose similar products.
I know now, sick can not go to the hospital is best, the hospital sometimes put a small disease, the abuse of antibiotics, that is the destruction of the body!
Now there are many promotions in the pharmacy, drugs are like any other goods, not only the price is lower, some private pharmacies are able to bargain.
Pharmacy has its way of doing business, first of all, ordinary products and cheaper than others to sell, in other words, others earn 2 yuan it earns 1 yuan or a few cents, but if they get is a monopoly, then the price is high, so the sale of ordinary medicines they will recommend their special generation of products, which, of course, may lead to a lot of people do not bargaining, but also, as the old saying goes: what all the good bargaining! But the doctor to buy drugs on absolutely no price can be said, because, for fear that they also discount, sell fake ah ~ so generally do not haggle.
Buying medicine without bargaining, that is the habit left by the old generation, they said that the price of the medicine will be ineffective, in fact, it is a kind of trust in their doctors. In the past, medicine also does not exist to call the phenomenon of high prices, but now is a market economy, medicine is no exception, many pharmacies are the use of non-bargaining, and to obtain profiteering, so there are times when some of the drugs with profiteering or to bargain!