March 2, 2009 1:54PM # Event This Week at Cato By Cato Editors --- SHARE **Tuesday, March 3** 12:00 PM (Luncheon to Follow) POLICY FORUM: [Should Government Deliver Comparative-Effectiveness Research – or Can It?](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5886) Studies comparing the effectiveness of medical treatments have the potential to reduce health care costs by helping purchasers, such as Medicare, eliminate low-value services. Health care analysts generally agree that current institutions underproduce comparative-effectiveness research, which would seem to be a public good. Many, therefore, want Congress to fund such research. But is market failure really the culprit? And would taxpayer-funded research solve the problem, or would it lead to government rationing? Or would it have no effect on health care costs? Featuring [Shannon Brownlee,](http://www.newamerica.net/people/shannon_brownlee) Visiting Scholar, NIH Clinical Center, Dept. of Bioethics, and also Senior Fellow at the [New America Foundation](http://www.newamerica.net/); [Scott Gottlieb](http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.90,filter.all/scholar.asp), M.D., Resident Fellow, [American Enterprise Institute](http://www.aei.org/); and [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-cannon), Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute. Check back [here](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5886) to watch the forum live online. [](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5886) ##### Related Tags [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).