One reason is that in Britain they are subject to a cost-benefit assessment.

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After all, if Vioxx was sold mainly as safer on the stomach, shouldn't the chance of heart risks have radically changed the risk-benefit assessment of the drug?

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And this leads to the first concrete benefit to an effective risk assessment: business buy-in.

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Opposition spokeswoman Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town welcomed the "modest" amendment, telling peers it would improve the assessment process and ensure the right benefit was paid to the right people.

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As long as skilled care is deemed necessary by a health professional based on an individual assessment, maintenance therapy would now be a Medicare benefit.

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Federal agencies are required by presidential executive order to prepare a regulatory impact assessment in support of any economically significant regulatory action, an important component of which is a benefit-cost analysis.

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The assessment says the school "does not ensure that people in poverty are not excluded from the opportunity to benefit".

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