Comparative Effectiveness Research

"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right." These words, spoken by Lyndon Johnson, could apply to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute which is clearly trying to "do right" but has shown little evidence that it knows what is.

One could design a national health care system akin to treatment-by-vending-machine: put in your condition and a credit card, and it spits out a medicine, no discussion needed. But is that really best for patients?

In his most recent New York Times column, David Brooks did what he does best -- attempted to dress up extremism in the guise of respectable, measured language.

When President Obama and others have gone before the American people to promote their health reform agenda, they've often over-simplified an important...

Many things are wrong with Dr. Norbert Gleicher's piece in the Wall Street Journal. A health care expert panel would not be a "government" panel, but a panel of medical experts commissioned by the government.

Mammograms weren't outlawed. They weren't taken away. No one's insurance stopped covering them. It's just a recommendation.

People clamor for health care to be treated like any other good or service, but as soon as people start talking about how much bang you're getting for your buck the clamor morphs into outrage over rationing.

Though the Senator called for bipartisanship, he paradoxically encouraged conservative commentators to keep launching smear campaigns against the health care provision.

The important thing is to be sure that while we're endeavoring to achieve universal health care, we don't do so only or largely on the backs of ill people.

This claptrap is really about the far right laying the ground work for a far greater and more sustained attack on the Democrats' attempt to fix our health care system.