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Comparative Effectiveness Research

Anecdotes Are Weak Evidence

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Evidence Based Decision Making, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

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.

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How Research Kills Old People

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Medicare, Death Panels, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

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.

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Grassley to Limbaugh: Keep Distorting Health Reform

Lester Feder | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Harry and Louise, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley, Charles Grassley, Health Reform, Politics News
Lester Feder

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

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Patient-Centered Principles Cause a Stir

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living

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Barbara Coombs Lee

Changing the focus from the disease to the person who has the disease would create radical change indeed.

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Dr. Dean's Return To My-Way-Or-The-Highway Politics

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, Comparative Effectiveness Council, Howard Dean, Obama Change, Patient Input, Lobbying, Medical Costs, Phramaceutical Influence, David Axelrod, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Universal Health Care, Politics of Medicine, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

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.

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The Far Right's All Out Offensive Against Medical Research

Howard Dean | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Howard Dean, Far Right, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Health Care, Universal Healthcare, Politics News
Howard Dean

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.

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