Do We Spend Too Much on Medications?

Abstract

The Government recently announced that the problem of debts of hospitals to wholesale pharmacies is about to be solved in a systematic manner. The present press release, after presenting a short analysis of the consumption of medications in Croatia, highlights the necessity of recording more detailed and transparent statistical data on expenditures in the Croatian healthcare system, primarily in hospital care. Apart from this, we should analyse the market of particularly expensive medications and explore how the constant increase of public expenditure for medications can be controlled without undermining the quality of healthcare.