Who will pay?

Antibiotic resistance: who will pay the bills?

The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance among bacteria is a public health crisis. Infections with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria increase patient morbidity and mortality and greatly increase the cost of medical care [1–4]. The number of resistant bacteria and the diversity of molecular mechanisms of resistance have increased sharply in recent years [5, 6], but the development of newer...

Who will pay future hospital bills?

Who will pay for medical education in our teaching hospitals?

Although most medical educators believe that education, research, and patient care are inseparable and essential to their academic mission, the educational component of this triad has never been given adequate, earmarked support. To fund educational programs, medical centers first relied on research grants and later on third-party payments intended for patient care. However, research money has ...

Health care for native Americans: who will pay?

Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?

Fueled by enthusiasm of volunteers, government subsidies, and open data legislation, the Web of Data (WoD) has enjoyed a phenomenal growth. Commercial data, however, has been stuck in proprietary silos, as the monetization strategy for sharing data in the WoD is unclear. This is in contrast to the traditional web where advertisement fueled a lot of the growth. This raises the question how the W...