Global Collaboration on Reference Models Will Further Depersonalize Healthcare

Global Collaboration on Reference Models Will Further Depersonalize Healthcare

By Sally Pipes & Wayne Winegarden 

Question: What’s worse than government bureaucrats in Washington declaring the value of your medicine? Answer: Bureaucrats from Boston, London, Ottawa and Diemen establishing that value.

Unfortunately, this is not a joke. It is the direction that the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review is pushing our healthcare system.

ICER is a Boston-based private organization that has granted itself the right to declare how much a new medicine is worth to you. This is as troubling as it sounds.

Click to read the full article in DC Journal, an Inside Sources publication.