Friday, February 13, 2009

Bloviation vs. Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision - washingtonpost.com

Bloviation vs. Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision - washingtonpost.com: "The report spelled out the committee's rationale for including $1.1 billion for something called 'comparative effectiveness research' in the massive economic stimulus bill. For those of not steeped in the argot of health policy, that's research done by doctors and statisticians who troll through large number of patient records to determine, for any particular disease, which treatments work best."