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Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality

The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

That may be true, but then the firms that do carry out the R&D are also dominant in their developed domestic markets, where their margins can absorb the fixed costs of R&D and there's nothing to stop them from competing on a cost basis in Africa, particularly given the low production costs of most drugs.

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Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs

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Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality

The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

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