copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-05-26): The BJP government published an infographic on the 48-months portal that makes claims about affordable healthcare, specifically about essential medicines. This article is a fact check of the claims.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-11-09): The demand for essential drugs depends on the interaction between patients' demand for health care and the choices of physicians who prescribe and pharmacists who dispense drugs. Regulating prices define the incentives and constraints on these choices. For non-prescription drugs, the patient is the primary decision-maker, but regulation of retail pharmacies may affect the prices and choice available. Government can intervene on pharmaceutical market to improve access and affordability of essential medicines by price and profit control, using reference pricing and brand premiums, eliminating tariffs and taxes, fixing margins, using digressive markups and capitation systems.[61] [...] Benefits of the introduction of price regulation are obtained through reducing excess profits earned by suppliers of medicines. These include increased affordability of essential medicine, reduced healthcare cost to insurers; reduced government healthcare expenditure; and indirect increase on expenditure non-health-related development goals. However, strict targets in terms of price control may cause great economic risk without a comparative advantage. This is because businesses would seek to be more productive by considering more efficient capital replacement decisions that may result in perverse health effects.[90,91]
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-12-08): When pricing medicines collectively, total welfare is maximized when the common price per unit of benefit is below \(k\). Maximizing population health (consumer surplus) requires a common price even further below \(k\).
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-09-29): New controls on drug prices will benefit patients, say health economists
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-01-30): The IRA is a mix of constructive and counterproductive reforms. Reforming insurance to lower out-of-pocket costs for patients makes sense. Subjecting biologics to price controls 13 years after they launch will help ensure that these types of medicines, which do not lend themselves to the same genericization process that renders small molecules inexpensive after patent expiration, abide by the intent of the patent system to see old inventions drop in price. But the aggressive price controlling of small molecule and other drugs approved via the NDA regulatory pathway just 9 years after they launch does not fix any market failure but rather breaks what is already working and therefore merits a rethink.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2022-10-22): The latest DPCO, 2013 [6] was notified on 15 May 2013 for the implementation of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPP), 2012 [7]. The NPPP’s objective was ‘to put in place a regulatory framework for pricing of drugs to ensure availability of essential medicines at reasonable prices even while offering adequate opportunity for innovation and competition to support the pharmaceutical industry. As per the DPCO, 2013 all the drugs under the National List of Essential Medicines (n = 348) notified by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were brought under price control. DPCO 2013 set the price ceilings for these medicines averaging the existing market prices (of all brands that have a market share of 1% or greater) and adding a 16 per cent retailer’s margin to it. In addition, the brands priced below the ceiling price were required to maintain the prices at current levels, whereas the brands priced above the price cap had to reduce their prices.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-09-28): WHO has a long-standing commitment to work with countries to ensure essential medicines are more affordable to individual people and to the health system. The WHO Essential Medicines List, updated every two years, has been a global reference for medicines access since 1978, and the Organization’s Prequalification programme has played a critical role in expanding access to quality-assured priority medicines, particularly in the area of HIV/AIDS. In the coming years, WHO will continue to work with countries to develop sound pharmaceutical pricing policies, including by running training workshops with country stakeholders and enabling discussion and information sharing through the Fair Pricing Forum (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/335692/9789240011878-eng.pdf).
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-07-09): The high price of many essential medicines is a major barrier to the goal of universal health coverage and primary health care. The poor bear a disproportionate portion of this burden, and it is common in low- and middle-income countries for medicines to be the highest out-of-pocket expense after food.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-07-17): When wealthy countries impose price regulations on drugs, they fail to balance the welfare of current and future consumers. Price controls reduce current governments’ and consumers’ health expenditures. As such, many wealthy countries are unwilling to abandon them because doing so means their consumer/taxpayer welfare would fall.[4] In other words, these countries choose to act in their own interest while simultaneously forgetting to consider the health of future citizens, both those in their own country and globally. According to one study, drug price controls reduce "R&D, the flow of new products, firm value, and consumer welfare" for the world.[5] This means today’s price controls will reduce the number of new drugs available to future generations in all countries, including to cure diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and Alzheimer’s. Conversely, lifting price regulations benefits all countries because it would boost biopharmaceutical revenue, leading to an increase in R&D and the development of new drugs.[6] [...] Price control measures reduce pharmaceutical revenues and, subsequently, the revenue that drives R&D.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-01-13): Policies that extend intellectual property rights and limit price controls work against universal health and access to necessary medicines. Governments need to develop their capacities to redress such failings.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-03-20): Announced measures (totaling about 6.5 percent of 2020 GDP, 4.5 percent in the budget and 2 percent off-budget, based on the authorities’ estimates) have focused on providing: (i) increased health spending, including for improvements in virus diagnostics, purchases of vaccines and hospital equipment, and construction of clinics and hospitals; (ii) support for workers and vulnerable groups, including through increased transfers to poor families, social security benefits (especially to low-income beneficiaries), unemployment insurance benefits, and payments to minimum-wage workers; (iii) support for hard-hit sectors, including reduced social security contributions, grants to cover payroll costs; and subsidized loans for construction-related activities; (iv) demand support, including spending on public works; (v) forbearance, including continued provision of utility services for households in arrears; and (vi) credit guarantees for bank lending to micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for the production of foods and basic supplies. In addition, the authorities have adopted anti-price gouging policies, including price controls for food and medical supplies and ringfencing of essential supplies, including certain export restrictions on medical supplies and equipment and centralization of the sale of essential medical supplies.
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2017-11-29): Products - 50-60% savings ‘Affordable & Quality HealthCare for All’ - Availability of Cheaper Medicines · 1084 essential medicines, including lifesaving drugs, brought under Price Control regime after May 2014, giving the consumer total benefit Rs. 9144 crores (As on 21st February, 2018). [...] Capping of Prices of Cardiac Stents and Knee implants: Total estimated saving of Rs. 5,950 crores to general public: The capping of prices of Coronary Stents resulted into estimated savings of Rs. 4450 crores and that of Knee Implants into estimated savings of Rs. 1500 crores. [...] Medicines 1054 essential medicines, including lifesaving drugs, brought under Price Control regime after May 2014, giving the consumer total benefit Rs. 9113 crores (As on 29th September, 2017).
Claim: Bringing essential medicines under price control regime gives consumers total benefit of more than 10,000 crores. (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-01-01): In order to provide affordable and quality healthcare for all, the government has brought 1054 essential medicines, including lifesaving drugs, under price control regime after May 2014, giving the consumer total benefit of more than Rs. Besides, the government also has brought Cardiac Stents and Knee Implants under price cap. [...] Under the Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana, more than 3,000 Janaushadi outlets have been opened to ensure availability of quality medicines at affordable prices to all. Apart from Janaushadhi Stores, the government has also opened 83 Amrit stores, which provide drugs for cancer and cardio-vascular diseases with cardiac implants at a 60 to 90 per cent discount on prevailing market rates. So far 17.97 lakh patients have been benefitted from Amrit outlets, with a total saving to the tune of Rs. 103.55 crores to patients.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Visuals show a building that collapsed in Izmir, Turkey on 30 October 2020 when an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck Aegean Sea in October 2020. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Dramatic video captures moment building collapses in Turkey
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-08): Earthquake footage shows Türkiye's buildings collapsing like pancakes. An expert explains why [...] Adding to the devastation, some 3,450 buildings have collapsed, according to the Turkish government. Many of the modern buildings have failed in a "pancake mode" of structural collapse. [...] There are well-known problems in Türkiye and elsewhere with ensuring safe building construction and adherence to seismic building codes. Similar building collapses have been seen in past earthquakes in Türkiye.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-07): A set of two videos showing a building collapsing and people running to safety is being widely shared on social media linking it to the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, 6 February. [...] The first shows a building collapsing during an earthquake in Turkey's Izmir region in October 2020. [...] It mentioned that it showed a building collapsing due to a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Izmir, Turkey.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-15): A pair of severe earthquakes of magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5 struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, leaving over 40,000 people dead and unknown numbers injured or displaced. [...] "Buildings that fail during earthquakes are often made of materials that are too brittle, such as concrete and masonry, without adequate reinforcement," Kaklamanos explained. [...] "Many of the buildings that collapsed in Turkey and Syria appear to be constructed of reinforced concrete, but the amount of reinforcing steel was likely insufficient to handle the loads from the earthquake," he said.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-13): FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Buildings Collapsing In Turkey During The Earthquake? A video shared on social media allegedly shows footage of a high-rise building collapsing during the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. [...] The video predated the Turkey earthquake. A reverse image search dates the footage back to 2022,. The video was of a controlled demolition of abandoned apartments in China.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-09): In November 2022, after a magnitude 6 earthquake damaged more than 2,000 buildings in Duzce, northern Turkey, environment and urbanisation minister Murat Kurum underlined that the authorities were working towards making every building in the country "earthquake safe by 2035". [...] "Some relatively new buildings also collapsed in this earthquake, which likely means contractors took shortcuts, tried to economise using sub-par materials and authorities failed to do their due diligence before approving construction projects," Tuysuz said. [...] Tuysuz agreed. "It is completely unacceptable for a public building, a power plant or an airport to collapse in an earthquake," he said. "There are very strict regulations in place to prevent this. The scenes we are witnessing today in the southeast are proof of the state’s shortcomings in implementing its own rules even in constructions over which it has complete control."
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-08): Turkey earthquake: Before and after pictures show extent of destruction
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2024-03-15): A catastrophic Mw7.8 earthquake hit southeast Turkey and northwest Syria on February 6th, 2023, leading to more than 44 k deaths and 160 k building collapses. The interpretation of earthquake-triggered building damage is usually subjective, labor intensive, and limited by accessibility to the sites and the availability of instant, high-resolution images. Here we propose a multi-class damage detection (MCDD) model enlightened by artificial intelligence to synergize four variables, i.e., amplitude dispersion index (ADI) and damage proxy (DP) map derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, the change of the normalized difference built-up index (NDBI) derived from optical remote sensing images, as well as peak ground acceleration (PGA). This approach allows us to characterize damage on a large, tectonic scale and a small, individual-building scale. The integration of multiple variables in classifying damage levels into no damage, slight damage, and serious damage (including partial or complete collapses) excels the traditional practice of solely use of DP by 11.25% in performance. Our proposed approach can quantitatively and automatically sort out different building damage levels from publicly available satellite observations, which helps prioritize the rescue mission in response to emergent disasters. [...] Toksabay, E. & Butler, D. Turkey widens probe into building collapses as quake toll exceeds 50,000. Reutershttps://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-widens-probe-into-building-collapses-quake-toll-exceeds-50000-2023-02-25/ (2023).
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Turkey earthquake: Terrifying video shows block of flats collapse in less than 10 seconds [...] A huge rumbling crash, screeches of buckling metal and shouts from people running away can be heard in dramatic footage of a seven-storey building collapsing in Turkey. [...] Another video taken somewhere in Turkey makes clear the dangers that remain after the initial earthquake tremors, as a building partially collapses whilst emergency crews worked to save lives.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-08-16): Drone footage shows collapsed buildings in Turkey 00:55 Drone footage captured the debris of a building in the Turkish town of Cukurova after it collapsed due to a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country and neighboring Syria. Reports indicate thousands have died and more than 3,000 buildings have collapsed. Feb. 6, 2023
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-08): Turkey earthquake: Before and after pictures show extent of destruction - Published [...] Related topics - Published6 February 2023 - Published10 February 2023
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Dramatic video shows building collapse in Turkey during 7.8 quake as death toll rises to 3,400 Harrowing footage emerged early Monday showing an apartment building in Turkey collapsing into a pile of rubble, sending people running for their lives, during a monster magnitude-7.8 earthquake that experts fear could have a staggering 10,000 casualties. [...] Dramatic footage that was recorded in the daytime in the city of Sanliurfa in southeastern Turkey shows a seven-story building coming down as a result of the powerful tremors.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-07): Adding to the devastation, some 3,450 buildings have collapsed, according to the Turkish government. Many of the modern buildings have failed in a "pancake mode" of structural collapse. [...] Earthquakes are common in Turkey, which sits in a very seismically active region where three tectonic plates constantly grind against one another beneath Earth’s surface. Historical records of earthquakes in the region go back at least 2,000 years, to a quake in 17 CE that levelled a dozen towns. [...] There are well-known problems in Turkey and elsewhere with ensuring safe building construction and adherence to seismic building codes. Similar building collapses have been seen in past earthquakes in Turkey.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-06): Building collapses in Turkey after deadly earthquake Footage from the Haliliye district in Sanliurfa, Turkey, shows people running for cover as a multi-storey building collapses, hours after a deadly earthquake hits the region.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-08): Turkey-Syria earthquake: Dashcam footage captures moment several buildings collapse in Turkey [...] Wednesday 8 February 2023 06:11, UK [...] The moment several buildings collapsed in Turkey was caught on dashcam footage.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2024-02-22): The detection of collapsed buildings in satellite images after natural disasters such as earthquakes is a critical task for assessing the damage and planning recovery efforts. This study’s focused evaluation of deep learning-based image segmentation models, namely U-Net, LinkNet, FPN, and PSPNet, has revealed significant insights for disaster management applications, specifically in the context of the 6 February 2023 Pazarcık and Elbistan earthquakes in Türkiye. [...] References - Garini, E.; Gazetas, G. The 2 Earthquakes of 6 February 2023 in Turkey Preliminary Report. Available online: https://learningfromearthquakes.org/images/earthquakes/2023_02_05_Turkey/M7.8_Turkey-Syria_EQ_6_February_2023.pdf (accessed on 20 February 2023).
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-08): In the context of a major earthquake that struck Turkey and parts of Syria on 06 February 2023 killing hundreds of people, a video of a collapsing building is being widely shared on social media claiming it shows the latest visuals of the earthquake in Turkey. Let’s verify the claim made in the post. [...] A few other videos are being shared on social media claiming as the CCTV footage showing the terrifying moments during the earthquake in Turkey on 06 February 2023. Let’s check the veracity of the claims made in these posts. [...] Published (06 February 2023):
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2023-02-09): Fact check: Video of building collapse is from Florida in 2021, not recent earthquake in Turkey The claim: Video shows building collapsing from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey [...] The video shows footage of a condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, in 2021. It does not show footage from the recent earthquake in Turkey.
Claim: Visuals of a building collapsing in Turkey due to earthquake on 06 February 2023 (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-06)
Evidence (2024-03-06): When the devastating earthquake struck southern Turkey (officially the Republic of Türkiye) and northwest Syria on February 6, 2023, World Vision swiftly responded to the intensified challenges faced by the survivors there, including those made vulnerable by the ongoing conflict in Syria. The earthquake worsened conditions in an area already hosting thousands of refugees. [...] 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake: Facts, FAQs, and how to help - Fast facts: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake - How many people were affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria? [...] Fast facts: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake - On February 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southeast Turkey near the Syrian border, with thousands of aftershocks.