Follow-up of the effects of the legislative proposal

The plan does not address penalty fees for pharmaceutical companies, but it attaches great importance to medicine availability being poor in large parts of the country and that market solutions have worsened supply. That a government agency gets to monitor legislation's effects and the risk that products are withdrawn protects precisely that availability. The conclusion is based on derivation from the plan's requirement that healthcare is provided according to need.

• secured medicine supplydecisive»I stora delar av Sverige är det svårt att få tag på medicin, fast i storstädernas rikare områden finns det flera olika apotek i varje gathörn.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“In large parts of Sweden it is difficult to get medicine, while in wealthy areas of major cities there are several different pharmacies on every street corner.”
• market worsens supply»Privatiseringar har lett till dyrare elpris, att apoteken flyttar från landsbygd till städer och från fattiga till rika områden« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Privatizations have led to higher electricity prices, pharmacies moving from rural areas to cities and from poor to rich areas”
• healthcare according to need»Vård måste ges efter människors behov och inte efter kapaciteten i felaktigt konstruerade system.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Healthcare must be provided according to people's needs and not according to capacity in incorrectly constructed systems.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to step up oversight of healthcare to guarantee quality and build stockpiles so that medicines and healthcare materials are available when needed. Formal monitoring of whether the penalty fee leads to medicines being withdrawn from the market serves both these commitments. The penalty fee as such is not addressed in the documents.

• stepped-up healthcare oversightdecisive»Tillsynen av sjukvården ska växlas upp för att garantera kvaliteten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Healthcare oversight shall be stepped up to guarantee quality.”
• stockpiles for healthcare»Rusta upp det civila försvaret. Arbetet att förstärka det civila försvaret och krisberedskapen måste fortsätta, bland annat genom ökade resurser för att rusta och bygga beredskapslager för sjukvården« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthen civil defence. Work to strengthen civil defence and crisis preparedness must continue, among other things through increased resources to equip and build stockpiles for healthcare”
• healthcare as a public matter»Skola, vård och omsorg har en central roll för fördelningen av möjligheter i livet.« (party programme ↗)“School, healthcare and care have a central role in distributing life opportunities.”

The plan does not address penalty fees against pharmaceutical companies. The closest principle is that no patient shall be harmed and that healthcare shall be accessible and of good quality, with quality constantly monitored. That an agency is able to monitor the effects of legislation and the need for adjustments protects access to pharmaceuticals and is therefore weakly supported by the plan.

• no patient shall be harmeddecisive»En av grundprinciperna i vården är att ingen patient ska komma till skada.« (party programme ↗)“One of the basic principles of healthcare is that no patient shall be harmed.”
• accessible healthcare of good quality»Vården ska hålla god kvalitet, vara tillgänglig, fördelas efter behov och vara solidariskt finansierad.« (party programme ↗)“Healthcare shall be of good quality, be accessible, be distributed according to need and be solidarically financed.”
• continuous monitoring»Kvaliteten ska ständigt följas upp med olika slags verktyg.« (party programme ↗)“Quality shall be constantly monitored with different kinds of tools.”

The plan says nothing about penalty fees or drug supply. The closest commitments are that the economy shall have given and predictable rules and that the regulatory thicket shall be cleared for businesses of all sizes, which speaks to the effects of a new and noticeable fee being followed up and adjusted if needed. The stance is therefore derived from general principles.

• predictable rulesdecisive»Ekonomin ska ha givna och förutsägbara spelregler,« (party programme ↗)“The economy shall have given and predictable rules,”
• reasonable regulatory burden for businesses»Rensa upp i regelträsket för entreprenörer, stora som små. Vi vill införa en ny och förenklad företagsform för mikroföretag, så att fler ska våga testa att driva företag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Clean up the regulatory jungle for entrepreneurs, large and small. We want to introduce a new and simplified business form for micro-enterprises, so more people dare to try running a business.”

The plan does not address sanction fees for pharmaceutical companies, but requires rules that make it easy to do right and that unnecessary obstacles for businesses are removed. If a high fee leads to products being withdrawn, patients' right to good care is also harmed. A formal mandate to monitor the effects of legislation and adjust as needed thus aligns with the plan's direction.

• predictable rulesdecisive»Vi vill ha spelregler som gör det lätt att göra rätt« (party programme ↗)“We want rules that make it easy to do right”
• remove obstacles for businesses»Politikens uppgift måste vara att snabbt undanröja hinder för att underlätta för företag« (party programme ↗)“Politics' task must be to quickly remove obstacles to facilitate for businesses”
• right to good care»Var och en har rätt till god vård och omsorg oavsett bakgrund, kön, ålder, ekonomi« (party programme ↗)“Everyone has the right to good care regardless of background, gender, age, economics”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan makes evaluation, cost monitoring and quality control a central political task and requires that the state's rules for companies are long-term. Medicines are an essential part of treatment and shall be covered by a solidaristically financed system, which presupposes that products are not withdrawn from the market. Formally tasking an authority with monitoring the effects of the legislation is thus in line with the plan.

• evaluation as a political taskdecisive»Utvärdering, kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll är därför viktiga politiska« (party programme ↗)“Evaluation, cost monitoring and quality control are therefore important political”
• access to medicines»efter särskilt godkännande omfattas av ett solidariskt« (party programme ↗)“after special approval are covered by a solidaristically”
• long-term rules for companies»företagen är långsiktiga.« (party programme ↗)“companies are long-term.”
• patient safety»säker för patienterna« (party programme ↗)“safe for patients”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan does not address the sanctions fee, but the programme holds fast to constant readiness to evaluate, reconsider and improve carried-out reforms, and that reforms should rest on tried experience. Formally assigning an agency to follow legislation's effects and continuously review adjustment needs aligns with that. The plan also values medicine supply, which is risked if products are withdrawn.

• reforms shall be evaluateddecisive»beredskap för att utvärdera, ompröva, förändra och förbättra« (party programme ↗)“readiness to evaluate, reconsider, change and improve”
• secured medicine supply»Utöver bättre livmedelsberedskap behöver Sverige bygga upp bättre beredskapslager av till exempel läkemedel och sjukvårdsmateriel.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Beyond better food preparedness, Sweden needs to build up better emergency stocks of for example medicines and medical supplies.”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires that self-sufficiency in medical material increases and that every public expenditure is followed up with clear results, and that new rules shall be cost-effective. The counter-proposal's requirement that an authority formally follows the effects of the sanction fee, given the risk that medicines are withdrawn from the market, responds to these commitments. The plan does not address the matter directly, so the confidence is low.

• secured pharmaceutical supplydecisive»Sveriges självförsörjning av energi, livsmedel och medicinskt material behöver öka och snabbt kunna skalas upp vid långvariga störningar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden's self-sufficiency in energy, food and medical material needs to increase and quickly be able to scale up in case of prolonged disruptions.”
• follow-up of reforms»Begära tydliga resultat för varje offentlig satsning« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Require clear results for every public expenditure”
• cost-effective rules»Nya regler ska vara kostnadseffektiva och befintliga regler behöver ses över.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“New rules shall be cost-effective and existing rules need to be reviewed.”
• proportional regulatory burden»För att få fler och växande företag är det viktigt att ta bort onödiga regler där kostnaderna för företagen inte motsvarar nyttan för samhället.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“To get more and growing businesses it is important to remove unnecessary rules where the costs to businesses do not match the benefit to society.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.