Doctor's Orders?

Critics of comparative effectiveness research, which the government has been funding for decades, claim that it will lead to treatment being approved or denied based on costs. Proponents say it will improve the quality of care and can, in some cases, show that more costly treatments aren't as effective as less expensive alternatives.

We can't predict what will happen in the future, but we can say that several claims being made about the impact of ... Full Story »

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by Norman Rogers - Feb. 24, 2009

This is naive journalism. Th authors don't understand that the stimulus bill does indeed provide sufficient legislative authority to allow centralized control of medical care to be established via regulation.

Clearly the Obama administation wants to nationalize medical practice and they are using a stealth approach with plausible deniability just as Daschle proposed in his book.

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