This is a posting from a blog published in the New York Times which questions the usefulness of cost-effectiveness analysis in the US health care...

This is a posting from a blog published in the New York Times which questions the usefulness of cost-effectiveness analysis in the US health care system. This posting identifies different schools of thought regarding the usefulness of the practice of evaluating interventions based on relative costs, and it compares it to the newer practice of comparative-effectiveness analysis.