while this story does offer a discussion of the pros and cons of money allocated to researching relative effectiveness of medical treatments, which seems reasonable for a number of reasons, it's mostly missing the voices of doctors and hospitals. the story does say that doctors have little evidence of the value of various treatments, which is surprising and argues for this research, both to save costs and to provide better medicine.

This is a well balanced article on the topic of a somewhat controversial health care provision on the stimulus package. It provides a broad sample of concerns and opinions from various stakeholders familiar with the legislation. I downgraded it on depth, however, as the issue of maintaining privacy of medical records was not mentioned.