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Luigi Zingales has written a salient chapter on a book on preventing regulatory capture . His focus is not on the regulator, he describes th...

A Nudge Too Far? A Nudge at All? On Paying People to Be Healthy Is there a need to change " choice architecture " to adopt healt...

Early this morning on the radio this was the statement: "We live in a country in a desperate situation". The reason is that the ru...

This is the case of voluntary health insurance. Amid the current downturn, in 2012 there was an increase in the number of members (2.04%) an...

Ethical Physician Incentives — From Carrots and Sticks to Shared Purpose The strict focus on carrots and sticks in the design of physician...

From the WEF  report last year on non communicable diseases, I retrieve the size of worlwide health expenditure in 2009: World expenditu...

Starting in 2014, clinical trials data of drugs approved by European agency will have to be released publicly. This has been a major claim b...

In many cases, delay is not feasible. Decisions need to be made, even if the environment is one of limited attention, information, and proce...

Fortunately, we have started a new paradigm.A little bit late, but last Friday the government announced what I call clever budget cuts . The...

Last week I participated in a round table on pharmacy. The biggest concern right now is when the government will pay the bill. The pharmacis...

Waiting lists may be considered the most prominent consequence of a publicly funded health system. Without price barriers, the queue for an ...

Imagine for a while that the size of a market drops by 290 billion between 2012 and 2018. This is the case of pharmaceuticals. This is not n...

INFORME MENSUAL DE SEGUIMENT DE LA PRESTACIÓ FARMACÈUTICA Pharmaceutical expenditure in 2012 has dropped 14,27%, double of last year. That...

The colombian Health Minister has just announced the end of competition between insurers under a mandatory health insurance scheme. This is...