Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Quick Links: FFS, CER, Employer Mandates, Expensive Drugs

Greg Scandlen: "Is Fee-For-Service the Problem?"

Short answer, "No, it's the 3rd-party payor system". (Via Brian Schwartz.)

Kathryn Nix of Heritage: "Comparative Effectiveness Research Under Obamacare: A Slippery Slope to Health Care Rationing"

Jim Blasingame discusses how employer mandates in ObamaCare will hurt small businesses.

Avik Roy, "Stifling New Cures: The True Cost of Lengthy Clinical Drug Trials". (H/T: Dr. Richard Amerling.)