It’s a daunting task, but the ailing beast that is the US healthcare system must be brought to heel. Its feverish appetite for dollars needs to be curbed while getting the brute to recognize everyone in society is entitled to attention.
Science won’t feature extensively in discussions over the coming weeks, but it is central to effectively rehabilitate the monster. So in this month’s Opinion articles, we offer two sets of recommendations on science to the warriors of Congress who are crusading for just reform.
In the first, Dennis Cotter and colleagues from the non-profit Medical Technology & Practice Patterns Institute (MTPPI), illustrate vividly one of the struggles: the battle with mindless consumption. They describe in "Striking the right balance" the unnecessary, possibly harmful, and inordinately expensive over prescription of Epogen, a synthetic form of erythropoietin that regulates red blood ...
