Spending should focus on quality, not R&D

A new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University argues that more should be spent on improving care quality and less on developing new drugs. VCU professor Dr. Stephen Woolf writes in the Annals of Family Medicine that more lives would be saved if the money went directly to programs that work to improve care quality processes. "For every dollar Congress gives the National Institutes of Health to develop blockbuster treatments, it spends only one penny to ensure that Americans actually receive them," Woolf said.

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