AEI's Joe Antos in The American on how quickly and conveniently CMS is using post market evidence on cancer drugs to suit it's needs and screw patients: "The CMS action is breathtaking for its speed and its incursion into the practice of medicine. As a long-time observer of CMS, and as a former official in the agency during the 1980s, I have never seen a proposal with this level of detail emerge from the thicket of clearances in such a short period of time. Perhaps CMS has found some new efficiency that permits it to release rules in record time?"
Want an idea of how patients will fare under this farce called a federally funded R and D center for comparative effectiveness, read Balancing the Budget on The Backs of Cancer Patients.
http://american.com/archive/2007/june-0607/balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-cancer-patients
Want an idea of how patients will fare under this farce called a federally funded R and D center for comparative effectiveness, read Balancing the Budget on The Backs of Cancer Patients.
http://american.com/archive/2007/june-0607/balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-cancer-patients
