Pharmaceutical complains Minister Bruins

Vertex, the manufacturer of the extremely expensive drug Orkambi, sues Minister Bruno Bruins (Medical Care).

The maximum price for a medicine in the Netherlands is determined on the basis of prices in four countries: Germany, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. Vertex objects to the countdown of the latter country because Orkambi is not reimbursed there. Other countries look back to the Netherlands to set their own maximum price.