With the inevitable constraints of fixed budgets for health care, governments and other purchasers of health care have a responsibility to ensure that there is good evidence for the safety and efficacy of the procedures purchased on behalf of patients.
Haffer maintains that, "During the Clinton administration, the agency thought of itself as a beneficiary-centered, value-based purchaser of services, and tried to do things to measure the value we [CMS] were getting for the services we [CMS] were purchasing on behalf of the beneficiaries.
This provision to limit the number of guns per customer was an effort to stop purchases by gun traffickers or straw purchasers who bought guns on behalf of criminals or juveniles who were barred from buying them legally.
The goal is to choke off supply to so-called straw purchasers, who buy multiple guns on behalf of those who cannot legally acquire the guns themselves because they have criminal records.
"Six agencies submitted contracts" on behalf of perspective purchasers, he continued.
It will require quite an intensive effort on behalf of potential purchasers because the demand will be significant.
Adding to the pain, state attorneys-general have become more forceful in asserting claims on behalf of government purchasers and state residents.Class actions are less common but on the rise in Europe, with Britain, Germany and the Netherlands leading the way.
It was brought by five companies in Australia, Ecuador, Panama and Ukraine as a class action on behalf of overseas purchasers who use vitamins in a range of commercial applications, like animal feed and additions to breakfast cereal.
The suit was brought on behalf of 23 purchasers all over the country who paid a total of $75,000, but Mr. Spitzer said at a news conference that he believed that many other people had purchased virtually worthless art from the gallery through eBay.
Thus, in the example given above where the watch remained with the jeweler to have the strap put on it, all three systems would probably hold that title had passed to the purchaser, but the German system would require evidence that the purchaser and the seller had agreed that the seller retain possession in fact on behalf of the new owner, the purchaser.
