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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Peter L. Combs
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by Peter L. Combs - Mar. 2, 2009

Factually organized and sourced, debunking yet again Ms. McCaughly and her intentional misrepresentations. Fact Check's does a very good job when they put effort into a piece. At some point I hope ther efforts are applied evenly to both sides of the aisle.

Fact check is capabale of doing great work, they do however have a history of slanting to one side by omission of information. This is not the case in this report. The reality is, the current Private Pay health care system already systemetically allows and disallows covereages and selection of treatments as well as physicians used.

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