Persuading public officials to adopt a more rational, cost-effective approach to prison policy is a daunting prospect, however, not least because building and running jailhouses has become a major industry.
We should ask more of health care providers and drug companies through adjustments in payment formulas and increased drug rebates for Medicaid and Medicare, more from beneficiaries through more rational cost-sharing rules that discourage the overutilization of care, and more from lawyers through tort reform.
He may not in the end wish to veto a measure that makes the system more rational and cost-effective.
Moreover, this approach paves a way to a more rational and cost-effective catalyst optimization in heterogeneous catalysis.
Estimation of mortality risk in patients with CHF could provide a more rational and cost-effective basis for decisions on specific medications and cardiac devices.
Hence, in an era of increased financial scrutiny and competing demands for limited healthcare resources, technology assessment constitutes a useful managerial tool since it enables decision-makers or health professionals to make more rational and cost-conscious clinical decisions.
The new law just changes how we buy care to make the system fairer, more rational and more cost-effective.
Alex Brown, an exercise rider and a contributor to The New York Times's horse racing blog, said he was concerned about the use of alternative therapies "at the cost of more rational diagnostic tools".
"The mergers of Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, Southwest and AirTran, and US Airways and America West have created a much more rational industry," with reduced operating costs and less excess capacity since the US Airways-America West merger in 2005, he said.
We wanted to estimate the potential for drug cost savings if more rational prescribing practices were employed.
