From Pine View Farm

Knowledge Is Bad, Truth in Healthcare Dept. 0

The Health Care Reform bill includes a provision to create a body to study the comparative effectiveness of treatments for ailments.

The health industry doesn’t like that. Buried in a story at Bloomberg (emphasis added):

Comparative effectiveness will probably be “a headwind for the health-care industry,” the Boston-based analyst said in a March 23 phone interview. “If research shows that less complex and maybe less expensive products and therapies work just as well, that is not good news” for the companies.

Heaven forbid that doctors should know which brand of snake oil works best.

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