This paper aims to analyze the interfaces between Brazilian Competition Law and the issue of access to medicines, with a special focus on abuse of industrial property rights and related exclusionary and exploitative effects. The paper analyzes the case law of Brazilian Administrative Council for...

In an effort to slow the ever-increasing costs of health care in the United States, the U.S. health policy community has highlighted price transparency as one strategy to give consumers more control over their health care choices. But to empower consumers requires more than just making price...

The debate around public versus private health care often turns on cost - that is, on how to reduce costs, and particularly government expenditures, when it comes to health care. This paper examines the theoretical and empirical relationship between health costs and health outcomes in the...