s the purpose of the patent system, which is to protect the exclusivity of that drug that you’ve sunk a lot of money into,” he says. “But at some point, that patent has to end, that exclusivity has to end, so that the patients can get access to those drugs at a much cheaper...
"They often have short-term bonuses or restricted access, which may mean that you don't earn as much interest as you were expecting, or you cannot access the money when you need it." Fixed-rate bonds While we saw some stability across easy access accounts, it was a different pictu...
The BIU’s mission statement is to support the region ‘... in delivering more welfare, better quality, higher impact, and greater sustainability for less money.’ (Internal BI strategy document). Since its beginning, the BIU has grown rapidly from 16 employees and 290 users to about 50 ...
The challenge of intertwined costs is that one payer may need to spend more for another payer to save even more. Money spent on drugs that increase direct health care costs are offset in part by lower health care expenditures from reduced hospitalizations and surgeries. Moreover, direct health ...
In an increasingly global economy, GNI has been put forward as a potentially better metric for overall economic health than GDP. Because certain countries have most of their income withdrawn abroad by foreign corporations and individuals, their GDP figure is much higher than the figure that represen...
Annually billions of dollars are spent on border patrol and aid for the undocumented immigrants. As illegal immigrants increase, the value …show more content… The U.S can see that the border patrol has no control of prohibiting the illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. Furthermore, ...
If you’re considering whether a pet hotel business is right for you, the first thing you’ll need to know is whether it’s a) affordable, and b) worth the investment. I mean, how much can you actually make running your own pet hotel business?
In any business, both the company and the employee are taxed to pay for the two major social welfare programs: Medicare and Social Security. In the eyes of the IRS, individuals who are self-employed are considered both the company and the employee, which is why they must pay both portions...
But some remain poor much longer. While these are fewer, their impact is surprisingly large. They are an underclass of street-corner men, welfare-dependent women, delinquents and criminals--those hard-core poor left behind in the ghetto after the war on poverty helped others move up and out...
3 How much time and money can AI save government? Breaking government work into tasks to clarify AI's effects YOU need to know where you are before you can decide where you're going; this truism certainly applies to predicting the effects of AI on govern...