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bemused_leftist) wrote2009-08-27 09:31 pm
bemused_leftist) wrote2009-08-27 09:31 pm
FCCCER
Ah, that was the name of that thing.
President Obama’s Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research was sold as simply government helping doctors choose the best treatments. But there are dozens of medical journal review articles that do just that. The real purpose of such councils is ultimately to establish official criteria for denying reimbursement to less favored (because presumably less effective) treatments — precisely the triage done by the NICE committee in Britain [....]
letters@charleskrauthammer.com
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082703262.html
President Obama’s Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research was sold as simply government helping doctors choose the best treatments. But there are dozens of medical journal review articles that do just that. The real purpose of such councils is ultimately to establish official criteria for denying reimbursement to less favored (because presumably less effective) treatments — precisely the triage done by the NICE committee in Britain [....]
letters@charleskrauthammer.com
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082703262.html