Comments on: What Works and What Doesn’t http://scienceprogress.org/2009/05/comparative-effectiveness/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Tritton http://scienceprogress.org/2009/05/comparative-effectiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-5381 Tom Tritton Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:23:45 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=3184#comment-5381 There is another aspect to comparative effectiveness not mentioned here, namely how do different medical centers compare to each other when doing exactly the same procedures? For a good look at this question see "The Bell Curve" by Atul Gawande in the December 6, 2004 New Yorker. There is another aspect to comparative effectiveness not mentioned here, namely how do different medical centers compare to each other when doing exactly the same procedures? For a good look at this question see “The Bell Curve” by Atul Gawande in the December 6, 2004 New Yorker.

]]> By: SaltyDawg http://scienceprogress.org/2009/05/comparative-effectiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-5377 SaltyDawg Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:37:43 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=3184#comment-5377 I marvel that people take advice on reforming the health care system from television commercials paid for by profit-driven organizations that might lose money if their less effective treatment is exposed. I marvel that people take advice on reforming the health care system from television commercials paid for by profit-driven organizations that might lose money if their less effective treatment is exposed.

]]> By: Lynn Robb http://scienceprogress.org/2009/05/comparative-effectiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-5333 Lynn Robb Thu, 28 May 2009 18:54:12 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=3184#comment-5333 I have been seeing a lot of TV ads showing an extremely negative side of what appears to be effectiveness research in Canada and the UK. People have been denied care for hip pain, a boy's untreated soccer injury led to permanent disability, and people have died needlessly waiting for approval for treatment. How can we be sure this will not happen in the US? Until I am sure this kind of thing will never happen in the US I just can't support the government getting its fingers in health care. I have been seeing a lot of TV ads showing an extremely negative side of what appears to be effectiveness research in Canada and the UK. People have been denied care for hip pain, a boy’s untreated soccer injury led to permanent disability, and people have died needlessly waiting for approval for treatment.

How can we be sure this will not happen in the US? Until I am sure this kind of thing will never happen in the US I just can’t support the government getting its fingers in health care.

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