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The Drug Quality And Security Act - Mind The Gaps, Kevin Outterson
The Drug Quality And Security Act - Mind The Gaps, Kevin Outterson
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After the compounding pharmacy disaster at New England Compounding Center, Congress had an opportunity to assure that all compounded medicines were safe and effective. The Drug Quality and Safety Act, despite its name, fell short of that mark.
The Presumption Against Expensive Health Care Consumption, Christopher Robertson
The Presumption Against Expensive Health Care Consumption, Christopher Robertson
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This essay, as part of a symposium in honor of Professor Einer Elhauge, starts with his recognition that, for both epistemic and normative reasons, it remains profoundly difficult to regulate particular uses of medical technologies on the basis of their cost-benefit ratios. Nonetheless, this essay argues in favor of a general regulatory presumption against consumption for the most expensive medical technology usages, which drive most of aggregate healthcare spending. This essay synthesizes twelve facts about the ways in which medical technologies are produced, regulated, studied, and consumed to suggest that it is quite unlikely that the most expensive usages of …