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5 The Effectiveness Initiative: Retrospective and Prospects
Pages 31-33

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... First, government has the unique capacity to call the nation's attention to an area of interest, to set something high on the nation's list of priorities. In the business of health care and health services research, I think that is what the government has done over the last couple of years.
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... My former colleagues at HCFA are the custodians of immense amounts of data, information that is of very great value to health services researchers. Henry Krakauer and others are shaping that information in ways that will be of real utility.
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... Second, I think Congress will increase support for research into medical practice. The leadership of the Congress Willis Gradison among the House Republicans, Henry Waxman and others of the House Democrats, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, David Durenberger, a leading Republicanare all pushing hard to further this enterprise.
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