The purpose of the work: to conduct a comparative analysis list essential medicines World Health Organization with Kazakhstan National Medicinal Formulary determine similarities and differences in their composition.Methods: 21st main was carried out search for common distinctive features studied lists medicines. For convenience study, spreadsheets were used, also available on websites medicines...

BACKGROUND In the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, a formulary-based approach without beneficiary cost-share incentives is used to limit the pharmacy cost of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). However, the effectiveness of this approach in reducing the cost of PPIs is unknown. OBJECTIVES To (a) compare cost differences between the formulary PPI (generic omeprazole) and nonformulary PPIs ...

1 analyzes the effects of an interesting natural experiment— Maine's adoption of a restrictive Medicaid drug for-mulary in January 2001. The focus of the paper is on spillovers from this restrictive formulary to other sectors of the market. In particular, it investigates how the implementation of this formulary affected the prescribing behavior of physicians with respect to their non-Medicaid p...

So far, we have focused on a complete market benchmark and studied its success and failure to match the data in several dimensions (business cycles, asset pricing and long run growth) and to understand optimal taxation. A key assumption in that context was perfect enforcement of contracts (in particular, perfect enforcement of state contingent claims). A key result in that context is perfect sm...