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Marge Ginsburg is currently the executive director for the Center for Healthcare Decisions (CHCD), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization near Sacramento, CA. By identifying the views and values of average citizens, health care leaders and policy makers can better understand how the citizenry approaches trade-offs in an environment of finite health care resources. Prior to founding CHCD in 1994, Marge was an administrator of geriatric services at the Institute on Aging in San Francisco.


Comparative Effectiveness Research: Marge Ginsburg, Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Decisions

Marge Ginsburg | January 9, 2013
In many ways, this country is a victim of its own successes. While medical research and technology has brought phenomenal benefit to many patients, we have grown indiscriminate in when and how we adopt new medical miracles.