Evaluation of Medical-Technology Strategies

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RationaleThe current federal policy is to reduce the government's responsibility for health care and its evaluation, substituting market mechanisms whenever possible, and to vest residual control in regional and local authorities. Toward this end, the administration has recommended to Congress sharp reductions in expenditures for medical-technology assessment. This point of view is reflected in the sharply reduced budgets of the National Centers of Health Services Research and Health Statistics and of the research-and-development component of the Health Care Financing Administration, as well as termination of all funding for the National Center for Health Care Technology. The budget of the . . .

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