U.S. Panel Measuring Adequacy of Cures Lays Out Broad Agenda
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A U.S. agency formed to compare the effectiveness of drugs and medical devices plans a broader agenda that will study subjects such as whether care provided by nurse-practitioners is as good as that of doctors.
The agency, called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, was created by the 2010 health-care overhaul. Republican opponents of the law say the institute will lead to government-directed rationing as it judges treatments. Representative Thaddeus McCotter, a Michigan Republican, has introduced legislation to eliminate the agency.