The Drug Budget Silo Mentality: The French Case

The drug budget silo mentality: the French case.

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to give a review of the complex system of budgetary constraints to which the French health-care system has been committed since 1996 and to evaluate the consequences on drug policy and on efficient use of pharmaceuticals. METHODS Literature review, legal texts analysis, and interviews with policy makers and companies managers were performed. RESU...

The drug budget silo mentality: the Dutch case.

This article provides a broad outline of developments in the Dutch health-care policy related to the costs, budgeting, and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals. In-hospital drugs costs are part of hospital budgets, whereas for the main part of costs, nonhospital drugs, no strict budget exists. The government sets a goal for the annual cost increase of nonhospital drugs, but has only limited means t...

The drug budget silo mentality in Europe: an overview.

This supplement engages some of the leading health economists in Europe to analyze how the policies in their respective health-care systems to control and influence pharmaceutical spending are likely to influence the overall performance of their systems, with respect to both cost control and the production of population health. Six countries were selected to provide a representative mix of publ...

Moving beyond the drug budget silo mentality in Europe.

pricing unemployment insurance : the case of iran

employees always concern about losing their job , or in other word , losing their income resources. for this purpose, every government requires strong system for covering these concerns. the unemployment insurance (ui) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. in this thesis, we price ui based on the insurance history of employee and the duration of being unemployed. we use the weibull dis...