affordability

Reference: Paying for Cures: Perspectives on Solutions to the “Affordability Issue” Karlsberg Schaffer K et aljournal This weeks paper of the week is brought to you by Professor Sir Muir Gray, 3V Executive Director. Bottom line ‘We conclude that there is a mismatch between the enthusiasm in the academic literature for developing new approaches and the scepticism of payers that they can work or are necessary. For the foreseeable future, affordability pressures will continue to be handled by aggressive price bargaining, high co-pays (in systems in which this is possible), and restricting access to subgroups of patients. Of the mechanisms we explored, outcomes-based payments were of most interest to payers, but the costs associated with operating such schemes, [...]