Yet, even if there is still room for improvement, in international comparisons, the NHS remains remarkably cost-effective.
Vinod Khosla, whose venture capital company Khosla Ventures has invested $10.5 million in the project, says the technology is remarkably cost-effective.
Drugs often improve the span and quality of life in a remarkably cost-effective way, a fact of crucial significance not only to the individual patient but to society as a whole.
Giving midwives simple training has already been shown to save newborns' lives, and a new study in Zambia has found that it can be remarkably cost-effective as well.
Among its other virtues, yoga can be a remarkably cost-effective form of exercise — no special equipment is required, save for perhaps a mat, and you can do it on your own practically anywhere.
"EHM can be remarkably cost-effective because we offer service providers a completely hosted service, which means you don't need to invest in software or servers on-premise," explains Nigel Gittins, managing director of Webroster, a provider of EHM services that currently works with 21 local authorities across the UK.
It will say that saving biodiversity is remarkably cost-effective and the benefits from saving "natural goods and services", such as pollination, medicines, fertile soils, clean air and water, are between 10 and 100 times the cost of saving the habitats and species that provide them.
For more than a decade, Mexico has been paying parents to keep their children in school, and studies suggest that the program is remarkably cost-effective, once you take into account the economic benefits of creating a more educated and healthy population.
