The cost of providing potentially unsuccessful health and diet programmes, weight loss drugs that are often of limited benefit and, as a last resort, weight loss surgery, could end up posing "a substantial cost" to the NHS, they write.
Yet the next quarter-century saw another surge, pushed mainly by transfer payments and subsidies ostensibly aimed at the poor but often of most benefit to the middle classes.This sparked a counterblast to halt Leviathan, led by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
In practice, the extra vision and dental coverage is often of negligible benefit and doesn't outweigh what's lost by leaving traditional Medicare - but it looks good at first.
As an example, highly ranked condition-intervention pairs are often of great benefit to patients and cost-effective for society.
And though the government talks often of their benefits: how they share expertise, develop exciting curricula and give better career opportunities to teachers, the potential for reputational damage when trusts don't operate well is not to be underestimated.
He was often accused of benefiting from the Afghan opium trade and an array of corrupt deals, though he denied such claims.
Depression, anxiety and social isolation are often the result of benefit cuts, poor quality housing and debt, and the mental strain is driving more people to their doctors seeking help.
In humans, there are anecdotal reports of (often transient) benefit of the KD in mitochondrial disease (Malojcic et al., 2004; Laugel et al., 2007), particularly in patients with epilepsy (Kang et al., 2007).
This dilemma requires the prescribing physician to go beyond the limitations of the product label, often without benefit of appropriately designed clinical trials, in an attempt to select safe and effective doses for use with these smallest of patients.
