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Foreign influence on United States universities also was a subject of discussion at January 1992 congressional hearings on the subject of indirect costs for research funding Scandalous over-billing for research overhead at institutions like Stanford University drew the ire of congressional investigators, and one of the most irritating things was that some foreign governments were billed less, or weren't billed at all for the indirect costs, or overhead costs, associated with their research grants...
Then there is the economic issue. In a 1985 study, the CDC determined that the medical costs of treating chicken pox were not great enough to warrant spending the money on a national immunization program. However, when the indirect costs of missed work and school time are factored in, advocates say, the U.S. could save five times as much as it would spend on the vaccine...
...Administration is also seriously considering price controls, at least in the short run, on insurers, health-care providers, and prescriptions. Over the long term, it is leaning toward a kind of indirect price control on doctors called a "budgeted fee for service." The reformers envision a health-care system in which almost every physician in the country will become part of a network, practicing under caps and within a preset budget. Even if not part of a formal health-maintenance organization, groups of doctors will join together to offer their services through a health alliance. In return, the doctors will...
...strongly as possible from undergraduate education, certainly research costs at most of the universities I know anything about have," Rudenstine said. "It's one reason why the sponsor is always asked to pay the direct costs and then to pay what we think is the right share of the indirect costs...
Elliott Negin, managing editor of the American Journalism Review and author of the Atlantic article, said the share of indirect costs paid by corporations may not be enough...