What’s a Fair Price? The Debate Over Value & Cost of Specialty Drugs (Part 1)
How do we make these treatments affordable and accessible to those who need them most while ensuring quality care and encouraging new innovation?
Public-Private Partnership as a Path to Affordable Healthcare in Emerging Markets
This look of the potential applicability and impacts of public subsidies for private health insurance plans, as well as opportunities and challenges for implementation, in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) found that providing public subsidies rather than health insurance would enable BRICS governments to avoid the open-ended financial liabilities that have plagued advanced economies, while still expanding access to health insurance and encouraging the development of a robust private health insurance market.
Income Supplements Boost Health and Wellbeing of Elderly in Developing Countries
The fast pace of population aging presents serious challenges to governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These countries are essentially growing old before they grow rich, leading to a policy conundrum: how to provide financial and health security to the old without breaking the bank.
Physician Self-Referral: A Vexing and Costly Challenge
Reprioritizing the current fee-for-service environment with fee-for-value alternatives is a worthwhile systems change that might curb the financial incentive inherent in the volume-based model.
Promising Results Found for Indian Health Insurance Program
A health insurance program for India’s poor shows evidence of reduced mortality rates and lowered out-of-pocket costs.
Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, DSc (hon)
Vassilios Papadopoulos is the dean of the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, a position he has held since 2016. He holds the John Stauffer Decanal Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences and is a professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences and medicine at the University of Southern California. A noted scientist and…