2 Amendments of Louis GRECH related to 2010/2089(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 4 – point 1 (new)
(1) Urges the Commission to do its utmost to encourage Member States to offer reimbursement to patients and to do all that is essential to reduce the inequality in access to medication for the treatment of those conditions or illnesses such as post- menopausal osteoporosis and Alzheimer's Disease, which are not reimbursable in certain Member States, and to do so with urgency.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 4 – point 2 (new)
(2) Maintains that the recent economic and financial crisis have accentuated wealth inequalities and brought about a new type of poverty; calls on each Member State to regularly update its list of conditions and illnesses for which reimbursement is given so as to reduce the inequality in the access to medication and meet the demands of the recent socio- economic changes that have taken place.