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Comparative Effectiveness Research

…better serving the patients. Many see downsides though; too rigid protocols and interference with physician judgment, or the dirty “R” word, rationing. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently released…

Dear Ms. Boonstra: It’s too bad that you don’t live in Kentucky. Or Rhode Island. Or New York State. Or California. Or Arkansas. Or that Michigan’s state government now has a Republican governor, a Republican-controlled House, and Republican-controlled Senate. And, yes, that healthcare.com didn’t work until December. [UPDATED]

…states that did not create their own online healthcare exchange the opportunity to cruelly try to manipulate people Boonstra into buying its costliest plan, by implying that that was the…