Health care reform and the supply chain
While no one knows what, if any, health care reform will come out of congress, it is certain that it will have an impact on the supply chain. From the employee cost side, there will be a change in health care cost that the system will have to absorb. If the government will be providing a “public option” , will employers be allowed to use it for their staff? If not, would the employer help the workers more by shifting the current health care cost to wages and allow the workers to use the public option or subsidies to buy insurance?
On the transportation side, what will be the effect on the drug delivery side of the supply chain. It is likely that any insurance will strongly encourage refills of drugs for chronic care be filled through mail order provider to reduce costs. That would change the volume through the retail pharmacies and drug wholesalers which may shift volume for TL and LTL carriers to parcel carriers.
It is clear that all members of the pharmaceutical supply chain need to start developing contingency plans that will take advantage of whatever legislation is enacted.
Tags: distribution, distribution net, freight, network modeling, parcel, supply chain, warehouse, warehousing
Aug 05, 2009
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May 27, 2010
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