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MelissaSchober Re: CJF's questions about keeping costs down. I think one of big areas in reducing spending is something called comparative effectiveness research. CER, when combined with electronic health records, could save money by finding out what treatments are the most effective for the least money. If you have treatment A and it works as well, or very nearly so, as treatment B, and it costs substantially less, then we should use it. This is an oversimplication, of course.Still, the honest truth is that we don't know, for many treatments/interventions, what works best. Many states have high medical practice rates so some tests and whatnot are ordered to ward off lawsuits -- which is why I support tort reform.Commonwealth Fund has some great stuff on improving quality thru CER: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2009/June/Comparative-Effectiveness-Research.aspx
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