Health Care Reform's Wild Card: The Uncertain Effectiveness of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Journal: University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Year: 2010

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) stands out as the intriguing wild card of health care reform. CER compares competing treatments against each other to determine which interventions work best, supplying critical information for medical decision-making and health policy. If CER works as planned, it may be one of the few reform measures to survive into the final health care legislation that has a chance of flattening the cost curve while also improving quality. Unfortunately, health care re