Patient, Doctor, and Government – Who Decides?

What is comparative effectiveness research and how will it affect the future of America’s health care?

Did you know…

• Government funding for comparative effectiveness research has increased nearly seven-fold in the last two years?

• North Carolina will receive more than $30 million dollars this year for comparative effectiveness research?

• The North Carolina Legislature has already met this month to discuss how to apply this research to our state’s health care system?

• The health care bill signed into law this month calls for the creation of a new agency to carry out comparative effectiveness research, and is to be led by a “board of experts” appointed by the Health and Human Services Secretary?

Read my latest article about the government’s new focus on CER, and what it means for patient choice and the future of healthcare in America.