And speaking of NICE, have a look at Heinz Redwood’s new paper, “The Use of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medicines in the British National Health Service: Lessons for the United States.”
Here’s the link:
http://www.phrma.org/files/Nice%20Report.pdf
The lessons learned are important ones and once again the phrase that pays (or, rather, doesn’t) is price controls = choice controls.