Since 2003, the money coming from national health programs have been delivered to certain companies with the help of additional contracts.
The way that 980 million euros were given through side-line contracts has brought a certainty: medical care became more and more expensive. For four years (2003-2007), the National Health Insurance House (CNAS) has deliberately bought from private suppliers, without an auction, all the medication needed in national health programs.
According to Vasile Ciurchea, the president of CNAS, the last auction for such programs took place five years ago. But even then, the Competition Council (CC) says, the auction for dialysis was a fraude. The medicines enlisted for such national health programs are vital for patients suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and kidney illnesses.
Yet, the cost of the medicines has constantly risen every year since 2003. The total value of the contracts for the health programs was 149 million euros in 2003. Now, the same medicines are evaluated at a more than double value, of 337 million euros.
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