How health systems decide which treatments to pay for when budgets are finite
Every health budget involves rationing, whether openly or not. Formal assessment methods try to make those choices consistent, transparent and defensible.
Health
Medicine, health care systems, public health and wellbeing.
Prevention is better than cure, but the economics of paying for it are harder than they look
Spending on preventing illness is widely praised and chronically underfunded. The reasons lie in who pays, who benefits and when.
Why the same medicine can cost very different amounts from one country to the next
Drug prices reflect not just production costs but bargaining power, regulation and the way companies recover the cost of research.