Quebec's Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket with annual increases from 14.3 percent to 26.8 percent!

魁北克的药品保险基金的成本急剧增长，从14.3%的年增长率上升到了26.8%。

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ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: to introduce high-value drug insurance access mechanism in Australia, and to provide suggestion for improving orphan drug medical insurance access in China.

摘要：目的：介绍澳大利亚高值药物医保准入机制，为我国罕用药医保准入的完善提供建议。

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Kirby's report: "the substantial buying power of such an agency would strengthen the public prescription drug insurance plans to negotiate the lowest possible purchase prices from drug companies."

Kirby的报告：“一个这样的代理的强大的购买力能够与药厂商议得到最低的价格，从而能实现公共处方药保险计划的实施”。

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On new taxes, House lawmakers have proposed a 5.4 percent surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 per year and families with incomes exceeding $1 million,along with with new fees for insurance companies,drug-makers, medical device manufacturers.

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Ken Thorpe, a health economist at Emory University, reckons that Mr Bush's plan will bring 3.8m people under Medicare's new umbrella for drug insurance.

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And roughly one in every five poor, elderly Americans with no supplemental drug insurance has gone without a prescribed medicine because it was too pricey.

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But Krugman is right that Part D did basically give money to drug and insurance companies in the interest of keeping a private sector plan.

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