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July 8, 2009Who Will Say No on Health Services?
The Washington Post takes an in-depth look today at one of the core questions swirling about in the health care reform debate: Since medical resources and dollars are finite, who will have the power to decide what medical care patients can receive and providers will be reimbursed for?
Current legislation being drafted in Congress “would put new emphasis on evaluating treatments according to their ‘comparative effectiveness,’ or weighing the risks and benefits of different types of treatment for the same illness, but the bills stop short of incorporating cost-benefit analyses into the findings or of requiring that providers abide by conclustions,’ the Post article says.
Heritage health care expert Rober Moffit said in the article this kind of emphasis could lead to rationing. “You’re going to be saying to people to be saying to people, ‘We’re not going to care for you, because we decided it’s too expensive to care for you,” he said in the article.
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