Many medications are unnecessary

Many medications are unnecessary.

(14.06.2010) Numerous drugs on the drug market are superfluous. The new head of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) Jürgen Windeler even speaks of the fact that the majority of medicines in the health care market are even "superfluous". Accordingly, the new IQWIG boss estimates that the number of remedies could drop to 10,000 in the next few years without any loss of quality. There are currently around 50,000 different medicines on the market. Compared to the magazine "Focus" called Windeler, the "useless treatments" from the reimbursement of statutory health insurance out to take. In the opinion of the new IQWiG Pharmacist, this would only create "new space" for real medical advances. But background should be the financially burdened health insurance.

The financial budgets of the health insurance companies are currently burdened by expensive drugs, with many remedies according to the last pharmaceutical report of Barmer GEK the actual benefit has not been proven. The Barmer GEK estimated the proportion of new drugs with no additional benefit at around 40 percent. The new head of the IQWiG thus confirmed the report of the health insurance company. (Sb)