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In April of 2001, the Swedish Government decided to immediately remove Viagra from the public pharmaceutical reimbursement system (SFS 2001: 140). All patients who still wanted their use of this pharmaceutical — a treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) — to be subsidized were henceforth required to submit individual applications for subsidy to the Government itself.1
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Sjögren, E., Johnson, E. (2012). Governing by Drugs: The Denial of Subsidy for Viagra Use in Sweden. In: Larsson, B., Letell, M., Thörn, H. (eds) Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230363953_12
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