Wasteful spending
Two reports unveiled recently, that were mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, were supposed to help HHS implement a strategic framework for effectively implementing and coordinating comparative effectiveness research (CER) across federal agencies.
The act provided $1.1 billion and the National Institutes of Health and HHS received $400 million each, and the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality received $300 million.
This may outline what might be the government's preliminary plans for comparative effectiveness research (CER).
In one report, the Institute of Medicine recommended 100 government research priorities for comparing the effectiveness of drugs, surgical procedures, medical devices and other approaches such as exercise.
In another, the Federal Coordinating Council for CER recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focus funding efforts on data infrastructure such as linking current data sources to enable answering CER questions. The council report also identifies six interventions that must be addressed through CER, including medical and assistive devices, procedures and surgery, diagnostic testing, behavioral changes, delivery system strategies and prevention.
What is sad is that with 1.1 billion dollars, you could have bought a private insurance policy for every one of the 40 million people without insurance and solved the problem without rationing care which is exactly where the Obama/democratic plan is heading.
The act provided $1.1 billion and the National Institutes of Health and HHS received $400 million each, and the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality received $300 million.
This may outline what might be the government's preliminary plans for comparative effectiveness research (CER).
In one report, the Institute of Medicine recommended 100 government research priorities for comparing the effectiveness of drugs, surgical procedures, medical devices and other approaches such as exercise.
In another, the Federal Coordinating Council for CER recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focus funding efforts on data infrastructure such as linking current data sources to enable answering CER questions. The council report also identifies six interventions that must be addressed through CER, including medical and assistive devices, procedures and surgery, diagnostic testing, behavioral changes, delivery system strategies and prevention.
What is sad is that with 1.1 billion dollars, you could have bought a private insurance policy for every one of the 40 million people without insurance and solved the problem without rationing care which is exactly where the Obama/democratic plan is heading.
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posted by Anonymous at 5:36 AM
1 Comments:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a misnomer. It should have been named the Liberal Crony Repayment Act.
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