New Exact Dosing Measures Proposed

A prominent Mexican politician has called for reforms of the General Health Law to limit prescription dispensing to the quantities indicated in prescriptions, reduce counterfeiting and limit self-medication. The proposal, one of a flurry of measures put forward in recent months in order to cut costs, is a relatively straight-forward idea but would represent a major change for public hospitals and state-backed insurers. It also underlines the fact that behind much heated rhetoric about alleged price gouging by pharmaceutical companies supplying the state-backed sector, it is continued waste in the way medicines are prescribed and distributed that is a key

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