In the mid-1990s, a survey of 53 American industries ranked health care 38th in its expenditure on IT per worker.
The £2bn project to simplify the benefits system has been beset by problems and £40m of expenditure on IT systems has been written off.
Expenditure on IT systems has accounted for more than 70% of the £425m spent to date but the report suggested officials did not yet know whether the infrastructure in place would support a national rollout.
This has stimulated an active debate on the need to rationalize cancer management and reduce expenditure on it.
Taking this data literally (which is problematic given the challenge of measuring expenditures on prevention), it is tempting to infer that these spending levels reflect a sub-optimal level of prevention, from a social welfare perspective [ 10].
Not only is it one of the first high-profile companies to take advantage of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling (allowing companies to make unlimited expenditures on political campaigns) it chose, in Emmers, a longstanding opponent of gay rights.
In 1947, it made clear that the ban included not just corporate contributions, but corporate expenditures on campaigns — and that it also applied to labor unions.
But I think we will see growing levels of expenditures on health care, whether it's hospitals or pharmaceuticals.
In tough economic times, it is hard to justify large expenditures on art -- or is it?
When it is asked to actually pay for its expenditures, it verges on hysteria.
