Distortion of Generic and Patent Medicine in Consumer Protection Law Aspect

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.040How to use a DOI?

Keywords

consumer protection, generic and patent medication, consumer protection law

Abstract

Medication consumption shall not be based upon its taste nor the needs. Consumers’ ignorance on the ingredients medication consumed (as patient), indirectly lead to a dependency upon the doctor’s suggestion on the medication, which may cause a misleading on clear and fair information. Indeed, in some cases this problem became worst when malpractice happened by doctors who prescribed generic brand medication but claimed as patent medication. This will also definitely impact on the higher value price paid by patients as the doctor’s benefit in return. Thus, this study will examine on issues: whether consumers as patients in health services (especially on obtaining the generic and patent medication) have obtained their rights in accordance with the Consumer Protection Law (UUPK), and whether distortion of patent and generic medication occurs to consumers as patients who utilizes health services. Empirical legal research methods are used to identify those problems, and it has concluded that consumers as patients who utilizes health services (especially on obtaining the generic and patent medication) have obtained their rights in accordance with the UUPK Article 4 letters a, b and c. As the results of this study conducted by distributing questionnaires to the public society as consumers spreaded in the Greater Jakarta area in total 204 (two hundred and four) respondents, it can be said that the distortion of patent and generic medication happened was carried out by the doctors itself.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rifkiyati Bachri
AU  - Yunan Prasetyo Kurniawan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/20
TI  - Distortion of Generic and Patent Medicine in Consumer Protection Law Aspect
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Economics and Health (ICLEH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 186
EP  - 189
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.040
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.040
ID  - Bachri2020
ER  -