However expensive the procedure, it would be cheap in the long run if it saved a lifetime of medical bills, and therefore could be made available to all.
If Democrats use the fast-track procedure, it would be tantamount to "a declaration of war," said Senator Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming, the senior Republican on the health committee.
And act-consequentialism insists upon the decision procedure it would be best for the individual to accept.
If quantities had no real values independently of one's choice of measurement procedure, it would be difficult to explain what scientists mean by "measurement accuracy" and "measurement error", and why they try to increase accuracy and diminish error.
Conservative MP John Baron argued last month there was a practical need for the procedure: "It would be the very worst outcome if, after publication, the report were torn to shreds by legal actions and counter-claim" he said.
To save costs, time, and manpower and simultaneously increase the safety of the procedure it would be desirable to develop a less invasive approach avoiding biopsies.
However, due to the time-consuming IGA procedure, it would be difficult to motivate the children for further examination and, consequently, difficult to achieve valid output measures.
As diagnostic procedures improve, it would be important to be able to study also lesions of smaller magnitude to evaluate the effect of new neuroprotective treatments aimed at this stage of the disease.
