Prescription drugs are the highest single cost component for employees’ benefits packages in Canada. While industry literature considers cost-containment for prescription drug costs to be a priority for insurers and employers, the implementation of cost-containment measures for private drug...

This paper examines the prospects for reform of Russia’s healthcare system. It begins by exploring a number of fundamental imbalances that characterise the current half-reformed system of healthcare provision before going on to assess the government’s plans for going ahead with healthcare...

THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2005 A Bill further to amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. Under examination with the Committee on Health and Family Welfare On adulterated and spurious drugs

The Task Force recommends that price regulation should be on the basis of ‘Essentiality’ of the drug and it should be applied only to formulations and not to upstream products, such as bulk drugs. No effort should be made to impose a uniform price, and only a ceiling price should be...