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Peter J. Pitts, a former assocciate commisioner of the FDA and current president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, warns that the recently proposed national comparitive effectiveness center would limit the ability of physicians to effectively treat patients and reduce the quality of healthcare in the United States. The proposed center would fund comparative effectiveness trials, in which new drugs and medical treatments are measured against older therapies. Pitts maintains that a comparative effectiveness center would be concerned primarily with the price of treatments and, as such, would "restrict patient access to cutting-edge pharmaceuticals, hamstring physicians practices, and profoundly compromise the well-being of countless sick Americans" by restricting access to newer, and more expensive, drugs. Pitts concludes that a comparative effectiveness center would "solve a problem that's not a problem" because "drug prices aren't straining the country's health-care system." (Washington Times by Peter Pitts)
