Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.
Sunday, February 28, 2010  Truth will out -- if you let it
Friday, February 26, 2010  I got an excuse  Sorry for no post
yesterday, I had to finish both a paper and a conference
abstract. It's hard work -- sometimes even harder than watching
war on TV. And I also heard a talk by Michael Drummond, DPhil,
who is the chairman of a death panel.  At least that's how he
introduced himself. He's the chair of one of four committees of
the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence,
abbreviated NICE because the H would just mess it up, and he was
here to give us all the latest on how NICE works and the
politics of death panelling in the land of bangers and mash.
The only way we're going to get health care in this country that
serves everybody well and fairly is if we develop some kind of
equivalent to NICE. As long as we have multiple payers, it's
going to be difficult, but it's not impossible with a
sufficiently strong regulation.