DaimlerChrysler's includes extensive medical care and access to drugs for all employees who are infected.
If the public had free access to drugs, users would someday be a societal economic burden.
And drug manufacturers should not bear the whole burden of improving access to drugs in developing countries.
Now, economists are tackling or struggling with another aspect of the health of the poor: their lack of access to drugs.
Nurse Gena Andrew said Mr Webster, of Guildford in Surrey, had access to drugs while working in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Although the board said the internet was a low cost way of getting supplies to remote areas, it said it provided easy access to drugs.
Some governments are even taking steps to undermine or break drug patents--in order, they say, to give patients access to drugs they otherwise could not afford.
Although the arguments about access to drugs through parallel imports and compulsory-licensing agreements may have some theoretical validity, the disincentive to investment provided by such measures is massive.
If the commission's recommendations become policy, Africans may well have perfect access to drugs in a few years only to find there are few drugs for the diseases they face.
"Speaking as a secondary school principal I would be very concerned about the easy access to drugs in all the towns and small villages of Ireland at the moment, " she said.
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Suicide rates are high in countries where there are lots of guns, like America, Switzerland and Norway, and among professionals who have access to drugs, such as doctors and veterinary surgeons.
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Prescription drug trafficking, lack of training and communication between specialists treating the same patient, and easy access to drugs facilitated by crooked doctors, street-level drug dealers, and doctor-shopping addicts are widely blamed.
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Even better, improved access to drugs appears to be saving costs elsewhere: The Congressional Budget Office found every one percent increase in prescriptions filled results in a .20 percent decrease in spending in Medicare.
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Even worse, both will raise costs for seniors, deny them access to drugs they need, and dismantle the structure of the only portion of Medicare that has cost less than government projections the Part D drug benefit.
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The Liberal Democrats said people in different areas had different access to drugs not just because one authority could afford an expensive drug while a neighbour could not, but that the restrictions on drugs' availability "varied widely" between areas.
Shunning megamergers, Witty has shifted resources toward emerging markets that are eager to get access to Western drugs, and to stable markets like vaccines and consumer products.
The letter claims that lowering drug prices would increase costs in other healthcare sectors, that it would lead to restrictions on access to needed drugs, and that it might cause patients to not take vital medications.
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"I see a neurologist every six months, have access to disease modifying treatment drugs and easy access to my MS nurse, who I can see in 15 minutes if I need to, " he said.
In 2007, the board restricted access to two drugs for macular degeneration, a cause of blindness.
The WHO said improving access to antiretroviral drugs was key to cutting rates further.
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This argues that patents block access to essential drugs and that intellectual-property rights offer few advantages to developing countries.
Today South Africans can count on a supportive (albeit overstretched) public-health system, access to affordable drugs and free testing and counselling.
Issues to be addressed in the inquiry include the issuing of death certificates, the reporting of sudden deaths and access to controlled drugs.
Iressa was reviewed and approved under the FDA's accelerated approval program, which is designed to give people with life-threatening diseases earlier access to promising drugs.
She argued over the unfair situation where her constituents do not have access to certain drugs which were readily available to their neighbours across the border.
There is no evidence as to whether the increased access to new drugs and the higher costs translate into better results for cancer patients or not.
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This would enable easier access to new drugs for cancer patients, according to Mr Millar, as he proposed the reintroduction of prescription charges to fund the scheme.
What about access to expensive drugs for the neediest populations?
There was also a legal stand-off between activists and drug companies that threatened to cut off the country's access to antiretroviral drugs, but in the end Big Pharma backed off.
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