"We can see which medicines are absolutely the best and personalize the doses.
Clinical trials in hospitals determine which medicines are deemed safe and effective for use throughout the NHS.
The key question to ask, as neither your editorial nor President Obama does, is which medicines work for whom?
In Buenos Aires, the delegates first need to agree which medicines are good and which are bad.
Research by Save the Children examines this and other potential solutions that would address which medicines are made, as well as high prices.
However, a more important issue is the speed at which medicines reach patients, and that is why we have pledged to speed up the Nice process.
Express Scripts has specialized in understanding patients' behavior and why they may not take their medicines, while Medco has emphasized clinical expertise to determine which medicines work best.
Senate aides said the legislation envisioned a high degree of collaboration between government and industry in setting priorities and in deciding who should produce how much of which medicines and vaccines.
Proponents say that if Medicare is to spend $400 billion on new drug benefits over the next 10 years, it should have objective, reliable information about which medicines are most effective.
"Under Maine's program, government officials, rather than doctors and patients, would effectively decide which medicines will be available for Medicaid and non-Medicaid patients," said the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group called PhRMA.
"The processes by which vaccines get approved and by which the relevant commonwealth government departments decide which medicines to spend tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars on is very careful, and has to be.
