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Record W1866068151

Prescription Drug Importation Beyond Canada

2005· article· en· W1866068151 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
M.T. Moreno

Bibliographic record

VenueCalifornia Western international law journal · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicPharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedical prescriptionPrescription drugTRIPS architectureBusinessMedicare Part DHealth insuranceDrugHealth carePublic healthPublic economicsActuarial scienceMedicineEconomic growthPharmacologyEconomicsComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Obtaining access to safe and affordable medicines is a critical goal. AARP has long favored a system of prescription drug coverage for the vulnerable. However, until recently, there was no public coverage for medicines. With Medicare Part D, the issue becomes even more important. Although not perfect, Medicare Part D provides us with a start to addressing the problem of safe and affordable medicines in the United States. Part of the discussion in improving Medicare Part D includes allowing cheaper drugs from other countries, such as Canada, which has a strict regulatory structure. On the basis of AARP trips and assessments, Canada is a good choice. Because of its regulatory structure and the good experiences of patients who buy their medications there, it is an available alternative for getting cheaper drugs. The Dorgan-Snowe Bill, which would allow importation, is supported by AARP, because it allows importation from Canada with safeguards to ensure legitimate drugs are being sold. However, overall, we need to improve the policy available for access to prescription drugs, because of the increasing need for prescription drugs as additional people face the high costs of health care.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.896
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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