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08/27/2013
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Project that will be voted on Wednesday in the Senate allows pharmacy selling at cost
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Rio - INSS retirees and pensioners will pay cheaper to buy medicine from pharmacies. Reducing the value of the product is expected to bill pending in the Senate. The proposal allows the drugstores sell prescription drugs continuously at cost. Retirees who use drugs to treat serious diseases shall be entitled to the discount. The PLS 181/2010, which ensures reduction, will be voted on tomorrow by the Social Affairs Committee (CAS) of the Senate.
Pharmacy owners will be able to kill the income tax difference between the cost price and market
Photo: Carlo Wrede / Agency Day
Authored by the current Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Senator Marcelo Crivella (PRB-RJ), PLS has been approved by the Human Rights Commission of the House. Now, being processed in a terminating character in CAS. This means that if approved tomorrow will proceed directly to the House of Representatives, without going through the Senate. The list of remedies that will suffer reduced price will be set by the Executive, after the sanction of the law.
OPERATING EXPENSES
By design, pharmacies will be allowed to cull the difference between the cost price and market in IR. In corporate balance sheets, the values would be considered as an operating expense. The owner of the pharmacy would be allowed, too, to pay off debts related to taxes with the discount passed on to retirees.
For the Brazilian Confederation of Retirees (COBAP), the project will allow the pharmacies do not have to change their profit margins due to tax incentives. Rapporteur of the project, Senator Vanessa Grazziotin (PCdoB-AM) states that the proposal will benefit low-income seniors across the country.
PHARMACY POPULAR
LIST MORE
The elderly have already claimed the government to expand the list of drugs that make up the basket of remedies Popular Pharmacy Program. DAY As reported on June 13, retirees even suggested that drugs like Viagra and Cialis, compositions prescribed by doctors in cases of erectile dysfunction, were part of the list of products with low or that are distributed free by merchants government upon presentation of revenue.
60 ACTIVE INGREDIENTS
The proposal would add 30 more conditions to coverage from private pharmacies. Today, drugs are free or sold at low prices just for diabetes, hypertension, asthma and osteoporosis. Among the diseases that would be included in the list by retirees were: anxiety, depression, prostatic hypertrophy, stroke, gout and ulcers. Antiarrhythmics, antibiotics and sedatives also be offered. The basket would have 60 different active ingredients of medicines.
FRUSTRATION
On July 4, DAY showed that government thwarted by denying seniors include Viagra and Cialis drug list in the People's Pharmacy. Security and representatives of the General Secretariat of the Presidency claimed that the Union is not entitled to provide such remedies free or more affordable price.
Entities decrease agenda items
Representatives of retirees from around the country gathered yesterday in São Paulo, to unify the discourse in relation to the claims being discussed with the government in the next meeting on September 12.
Leaders of 26 organizations discussed the agenda with 20 items, which eventually reduced to three points: Recovery of the purchasing power of INSS pensioners, creating the National Seniors' Secretariat and budget with significant autonomy, and analysis of the impacts of the exemption from payroll Security.
But union leaders stressed the need for the government to do away with social security factor and ensure decent adjustment for those who earn more than minimum wage (R $ 678). It was agreed that the entity representative will join forces with COBAP on the 1st of October to promote the "Crucifixion of Representatives" in front of Congress.
Source: The Day - Online
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