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But budget considerations aside, health-economics experts agree that private health spending is too high because our tax rules lead to the wrong kind of insurance.
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For all the crap that insurers get for raising premiums, attacking insurers is the health-economics equivalent of shooting the messenger.
Forbes.com: News Avik Roy 2011
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Inc., an independent health-economics firm hired by the Insurance Department, says that competition between Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Inc. would result in lower premiums and better deals for health-care providers.
TONY PHYRILLAS 2008
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“It’s simply unsustainable from a health-economics point of view,” he said.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Britain seems to have recognized this in its latest approach to payment for very expensive life-prolonging drugs: "The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has asked its appraisal committees to consider 'survival benefits' when evaluating end-of-life medicines that fail to successfully pass the institute's cost-effectiveness evaluation [and, therefore, do not qualify for funding], that is, to look further than the basic health-economics model and give greater consideration to survival benefits when evaluating end-of-life medicines."
MercatorNet 2009
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