Redeeming Value

Calls for more involvement from the United States government in how medicines are priced have inevitably given rise to questions about the infrastructure required to adjudicate questions of value in medicine.   One possibility would be the establishment of a health technology assessment body -- common elsewhere in the world but historically viewed skeptically in the United States -- and Lou Garrison from the CHOICE Institute at the University of Washington spoke with us about the philosophical basis and practical realites of a U.S. HTA.