Towards affordable healthcare: Why effective innovation is key

"In this report, we look at one of the crucial pieces of the jigsaw – healthcare innovation. As one of the largest components of age-related public spending, healthcare is at the forefront of the challenge of ageing. While ensuring that we have a good healthcare system that requires continual improvements in the quality of services for users, it also requires improvements in the efficiency of the system to ensure its long run survival."

Towards affordable healthcare: Why effective innovation is key
SM Bamford, B Franklin, D Hochlaf, G Holley-Moore
International Longevity Centre - UK
June 2017

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Debt financing of breakthrough treatments

"Debt-financing schemes for breakthrough pharmaceutical products might offer a win-win-win for patients, payers, and manufacturers. Patients would obtain access to medicines; payers could ensure such access while remaining fiscally prudent. For pharmaceutical companies, entering into such a scheme would clearly be a better business and public relations strategy than fighting discounts and coverage denials."

Borrowing for the cure: Debt financing of breakthrough treatments
S Mattke, E Hoch
RAND Corporation
March 2015

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