Citizens speak out on acceptable prices of expensive drugs during a citizen's forum

Medicines play an important role in healthcare. They can increase survival rates, reduce symptoms and improve quality of life. But new medicines are often expensive, and it is not always clear how effective they are and for whom. How justified are high prices? How much of taxpayers' money and health insurance premiums should go to new drugs, and how much to other care? To find out what citizens think about this, researchers at Radboudumc organized the Citizens' Forum on Expensive Drugs over two weekends.

Professor of health evidence at Radboudumc, Rob Baltussen, is project leader of the citizens' forum. He looks back on the two weekends of the citizen's forum with satisfaction and is pleased with the discussions that took place.

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