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Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
Our new paper explores the evidence currently being used to allocate budgets between public sector activities in the UK and its limitations. We argue that there is much that can…
CBO Doesn’t Capture The Real Impact of H.R. 3 on Innovation
14 September 2021
…that health systems will not be willing to provide the returns biopharmaceutical companies need to secure future investment. The market failings of antibiotic development have been well documented, including by…
OHE Critique of CBO’S Pharmaceutical Investment Model Provides Warning for Policymakers on Reliability of Estimates
3 December 2021
As US policymakers consider the potential implications of the drug pricing reforms contained within the Build Back Better Act, OHE releases a critique of the Congressional Budget Office scoring, demonstrating…
Trends in European Health Spending
5 January 1981
In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national wealth. Between 1960 and 1978 the percentage of gross national product spent on…
Health Care as a Handicraft Industry
9 January 1995
The seemingly inexorable rise in real health care costs (i.e. over and above the rate of inflation) has been a cause of great concern to governments throughout the world. Few…
Hypothecated Health Taxes: An evaluation of recent proposals
1 January 1995
The subject of earmarked or hypothecated taxes dropped out of the mainstream of public finance theory a great many years ago. It is doubtful whether many of today’ s economists…
Controlling NHS Expenditure: The Impact of Labour’s NHS White Papers
1 December 1998
The English, Scottish and Welsh National Health Service (NHS) White Papers published by the government in December 1997 and January 1998, have changed the tone of NHS policy. Co-operation is…
Health Expenditure in the UK
1 May 1986
Share this: Download publication Robert Chew In the UK in 1984 the combined expenditure on health care services by both the public and private sectors rose to a record total…
OHE Annual Lecture: Universal Health Coverage: the Holy Grail?
8 June 2014, 11:00pm
…The health systems of most other high income countries similarly embody the ideal of universal health coverage. Yet low- and lower-middle-income countries have recently been on the receiving end of…