"At the same time cuts to road maintenance will mean a backlog of repairs which will simply cost more to fix in the long term".
Past experience suggests, however, that failures in HIV prevention or early treatment will simply cost society more in the long run, given the high direct costs of illness and indirect costs of disability, suffering, and death [ 320– 320].
They will simply be the cost of doing business.
Peter Walsh, the chief executive of AvMA, said: "Ken Clarke's department might save a little money, but the cost will simply be heaped on the NHS.
The incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) will simply be the difference in costs divided by the difference in effects: ICER= C t− C c/E t− E c=Δ C/Δ E. This can be shown neatly on the cost effectiveness plane (fig ).
16 In principle, GA considers whether there will be sufficient tax revenue collected in the future to pay for government programs, whether tax increases or other policy adjustments are necessary to cover government expenditures in the future, and whether the tax burden is evenly distributed over generations or if costs will simply be passed on to future generations.
She said that the DfT was inviting overspending in its HS2 budget, adding: "The overall funding envelope of £50bn includes a generous contingency, and we are concerned that this will simply be used to mask cost overspends, rather than valid calls on contingency funds".
The contingency fund gives the government a 95% assurance of delivering within budget, the committee said, but it added: "We are concerned that this will simply be used to mask cost overspends, rather than valid calls on contingency funds".
The contingency gives the government a 95% assurance of delivering within budget, the committee said, but it added: "We are concerned that this will simply be used to mask cost overspends, rather than valid calls on contingency funds".
After all, if their customers do incur higher health-care costs, the insurers will simply be compensated out of the risk pool.
With the threat of judicial review gone, local authorities will simply allow cost considerations to trump the rights of vulnerable patients, she says.
