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Last week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) “told reporters on Capitol Hill that he intends to meet with Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), chairman of the House Republican Health Care Caucus … to continue a discussion on comparative-effectiveness research and a public health-plan option — among other measures — that have proven to be sticking points between the two parties.”
Wonk Room 2009
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My hunch is that most patients think comparative-effectiveness review is already how medicine works, and would be dismayed to learn how little good evidence there is behind what their doctor is telling them.
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In January of 2009, Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, and Pat Roberts cosponsored legislation banning Medicare from using comparative-effectiveness review data to make coverage decisions.
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The right answer is that comparative-effectiveness review is a fancy term for studies that test multiple drugs or treatments against one another to see which one works best — studies, in other words, that compare them for effectiveness.
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Last week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) “told reporters on Capitol Hill that he intends to meet with Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), chairman of the House Republican Health Care Caucus … to continue a discussion on comparative-effectiveness research and a public health-plan option — among other measures — that have proven to be sticking points between the two parties.”
Wonk Room » Republicans Falsely Complain That Democrats Aren’t Consulting Them On Health Care 2009
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Just to be clear, this is not about comparative-effectiveness research, which analyzes whether treatments work and which ones work best, without regard to cost.
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Cato says a better way to generate comparative-effectiveness information would be for Congress to eliminate government activities that it says suppress private production, including allowing workers and Medicare enrollees to control the money that purchases their health insurance.
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Such a laissez-faire approach would both increase comparative-effectiveness research and increase the likelihood that patients and providers would use it, according to Cato.
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That's part of why comparative-effectiveness research is so necessary.
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Dr. Norbert Gleicher writes a piece in The Wall Street Journal that roundly criticizes the proposed role of expert panels that would make determinations about what treatments to cover by using comparative-effectiveness research.
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