This is What a Real Cost/Quality Decision Looks Like

Friday, August 8, 2008
The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has decided in a preliminary ruling that four drugs used for the treatment of advanced kidney cancer are not effective enough and they won't be paid for by the National Health Service.Now before someone just claims this is what single-payer health care plans do all the time, let me be clear that NICE is an organization that has