Federal Coord, Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research Membership (O'care, death panel?)

HHS ^ | 3-19-09

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Recovery Act Allocates $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced the members of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new Council will help coordinate research and guide investments in comparative effectiveness research funded by the Recovery Act.

“Comparative effectiveness research can improve care for all Americans and is an important element of President Obama’s health reform plan,” said HHS Spokeswoman Jenny Backus. “President Obama is committed to openness and transparency and the Coordinating Council will host open meetings and a listening session as it begins its important work.”

Comparative effectiveness research provides information on the relative strengths and weakness of various medical interventions. Such research will give clinicians and patients valid information to make decisions that will improve the performance of the U.S. health care system

The 15 member Council, named today in accordance with a Congressionally-mandate timeline, will assist the agencies of the Federal government, including HHS and the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, as well as others, to coordinate comparative effectiveness and related health services research. The Recovery Act authorized $300 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $400 million for the National Institutes of Health, and $400 million for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to support comparative effectiveness research.

The Council will not recommend clinical guidelines for payment, coverage or treatment. The Council will consider the needs of populations served by federal programs and opportunities to build and expand on current investments and priorities.

((what does that mean ?))

It will also provide input on priorities for the $400 million fund in the Recovery Act that the Secretary will allocate to advance this type of research.

Council members represent a diverse set of individuals and agencies; most of its members are clinicians. Representatives on the Council will address the impact on subpopulations.

To ensure that all voices are heard, the Council will hold a public listening session on April 14, 2009. Its deliberations and recommendations will be public and transparent, consistent with all Recovery Act investments as well as the President’s commitment to open government.

A list of Council members is included at link.

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Press Release - HHS Names Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Listed and shown last on the panel

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
Special Advisor for Health Policy
Office of Management and Budget

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, the Chair of the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, is currently serving as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

After completing Amherst College, he received his M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year.

After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Emanuel was an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School before joining the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Emanuel has authored 3 books and co-edited 4. He developed The Medical Directive, a comprehensive living will that has been endorsed by Consumer Reports on Health, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

He has published widely on the ethics of clinical research, health care reform, international research ethics, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and many other medical journals.

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Referencing this panel:

August 15, 2009 'Death panel' is not in the bill... it already exists

Related:

IMPORTANT READ .. by Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, Ezekiel J. Emanuel Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions

Scroll to bottom of article to +sign to enlarge print.

(Obama healthcare adviser Peter) Singer gets respectful reception ("[I]t is sometimes appropriate to kill a human infant")

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Glenn Beck segment: Where are the tough questions on health care reform?

Glenn Beck's Health Care Special Transcript

Excellent lineup and review of the Obamacare personalities and policy tendencies involved, including how the 'green' movement intersects with healthcare; in fact, this crew seems to be overlapping every major department with healthcare. This show just repeated, and may repeat again. All should see it to grasp the scope of what may be our reality.

Two segments of this Glenn Beck special on healthcare - How much is your life worth ?

Part 1

Part 2

In Part 2, Glenn clearly states: "this show is under a great amount of pressure to not bring you this news."

I can only imagine the threats he's receiving. God bless and protect him and his family. Let your voices be heard.

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[FrdmLvr]

I had heard this had happened. I can not believe this guy and the Congress haven’t been run out of Washington yet. I’m sharpening my pitchfork.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Even the “council’s” name has a Communist ring to it.

[FrdmLvr]

This is why they said they took the rationing out of the healthcare bill. Because it had already been signed into law!

[Republic]

He is very accomplished. Sounds like someone who thrives in an academic environment and was able to maintain a relationship with it throughout his career...MD and Ph.d. in political philosop, studied oncology and was on faculty at the Dana - Farber Cancer institute (where he did his internship and residency in internal medicine) and as assc. prof of medicine at Harvard....then joined the big gun-the National Institute of Health.

Certainly he did not do very much one on one with patients.

Interesting...he is amazingly cold for a doctor of internal medicine, totally immersed in the productive aspect of a life and in the cost of taking care of someone. Two things a doctor should have at the BACK of his list of importance.

[SunkenCiv]

Excellent lineup and review of the Obamacare personalities and policy tendencies involved, including how the 'green' movement intersects with healthcare; in fact, this crew seems to be overlapping every major department with healthcare.

[STARWISE]

Sure looks that way.

[markman46]

the other think in the porklus bill was the electronic records, do not remember what section that was in

[mojitojoe]

Getting close to that now or never moment.

[justiceseeker93]

We call Ezekiel Emanuel "Zeke the Freak" here on FR, the Godfather of DeathCare.

This HHS press release sounds like it came out of Orwell's 1984. What a bunch of leftist jerks and masochists elected this administration and found their way into it!

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the ping, justiceseeker93.

'Death panel' is not in the bill... it already exists

[Liz]

THE WONDER BOYS Rahm The Enforcer, Zeke "Dr Final Solution," Ari The Hollyweirdo)

RAHM “THE ENFORCER” ”There’s the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Rahn Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting “Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!” and plunging the knife into the table after every name. “When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape,” one campaign veteran recalls. “It was like something out of The Godfather. But that’s Rahm for you.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8091986/the_enforcer/

[Republic]

Very telling. Abnormal and extremely violent. And if one's name was called out before the table stab, that person is no doubt a human being of great honor.

Rahm is willing to do anything for the win, and it shows, all over him.

[Liz]

Zeke and Rahm announce ObamaCare's version of "Cash for Clunkers."

" W/ Obamacare's "Funds for F*****s," we get free high-tech penile implants."

"Obamacare's Penis-a-Go-Go has microscopic cameras and remote video relays
to wide screens in Planned Parenthood offices....to make sure Americans are
using sanitary sexual organs."

"And I never have to use a rolled-up sock again."

"I love hope and change (shiver)."

[upchuck]

Hey folks, why are you so surprised? This was in the Porkulus bill that was passed in Feb..

Back then a bunch of us were yelling and screaming, but on one would pay attention.

Read this from last Feb 9th:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

This is one of the reasons -7nobama was so insistent the bill be passed NOW!

I remember a Fox News babe interviewing Arlen Spector, before he became a Dem, about this. You could tell from the look on hes face he had no clue about this. But he did adamantly promise to “rip this out of the bill before we vote.” Sure he did. Asshole!

[kitkat]

BIG BUMP FOR THIS ONE.

[WVNan]

you can see the problem. They are moving so much so fast the American people can’t keep on top of it all. The country is lost and there is no way to get it back.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Nachum]

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