Health Affairs, 25, no. 5 (2006): 1204 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.5.1204 © 2006 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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Insurance Coverage Of Biopharmaceuticals

It is by now readily apparent to all concerned that new, breakthrough biopharmaceuticals pose a difficult challenge to existing arrangements for financing care because of their high costs, the small patient populations they often serve, and problems in measuring their incremental therapeutic value. How the U.S. health system deals with this challenge will reflect its unique and intricate mix of public and private institutions and processes. In a shift from an earlier era of scientific exploration financed primarily by government, the discoveries that paved the way for today’s biopharmaceuticals have been underwritten by private investors as well as public sources. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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