Medicare's Stance on Clinical Trials

This post on Health PROSe discusses how Medicare is not only important to health care delivery but it is also key to all clinical research taking place across the country. Cures and treatments for diseases all require that Medicare beneficiaries participate in clinical trials, and that was exactly what President Clinton ordered back in 2000.

This memorandum though was not followed through by the Bush administration, and it was actually dismantled. Obama's administration must recognize the important of the Medicare clinical trial policy to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries are covered. It will be interesting to see if the new administration will soon address this policy and take action.


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