Eight different health ministers have tried to run the system during the last 10 years.
Has he - as a health minister - simply got it wrong?
On 27 December 2012, she was removed from her position as health minister.
But at that time the health ministers were not even prepared to get together.
He has also served as provincial health minister in 1988-1990.
That law, the drug companies say, is overly broad and would give the health minister too much power.
His health minister explained that the national government would only consider expanding the program in a year.
According to the paper, in six years he had dealings with eight different health ministers.
Next he was appointed health minister and chairman of the environmental protection committee in 1982.
The new health minister concedes that high prices are a problem.