[Stoat]

However, campaigners are warning that the proposals for prescription restrictions in England will effectively block the drug.

Look for similarly 'enlightened' policies if HillaryCare is ever allowed to gain a foothold here in the USA.

[raybbr]

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[britemp]

I suppose Brits can do the same as Americans have to if they want this drug - pay for it themselves.

[BlessedBeGod]

Aclasta costs £284 a year - about £5.50 a day - which is similar to the cost of current monthly treatments used by the Health Service, but under threat from the new NICE guidelines.

Wouldn't the cost per day be £284/365=approx. £.78?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Each broken hip costs £12,000 on average to treat . . . [and] . . . . three months after a hip fracture, nearly one in five elderly patients will die.

. . . One of the biggest advantages of Aclasta is that it needs only to be taken once a year, compared to other monthly alternatives.

. . . But under new NICE proposals, doctors will be allowed only to use the cheapest drug available. For osteoporosis sufferers this would mean being treated with Alendronate, which costs 14p a day.

A quarter of women taking it go on to develop chronic side effects, including stomach pains, or do not respond to treatment.

The fundamental boast of socialism is that it will make things (especially health care) cheap. But what this article plainly illustrates is that cheap is not always economical. Cheap can also be penny wise and pound foolish.

Socialism is (obviously) a power grab. When socialism seizes from consumers the authority to reward quality, the result is shoddy quality. Especially when compared to what actual progress can deliver as opposed to what the faux "progressivism" of socialism produces.

Take note of how Hillary and the rest prattle about delivering "quality health care." The fundamental fact is that Hillarycare is an attack on the providers of health care and especially on their ability to prosper by improving the quality of health care. We look back on the past and pity our ancestors for the pathetic lack of medical technology which tended to make life "nasty, brutish, and short." The issue we now face is whether we will continue to deliver to our posterity the blessings of liberty in improvements of health care as yet scarcely dreamed of, or whether we will sell their heritage for an (illusory) mess of pottage.

[Cold Heart]

Aclasta reduces spinal fractures 70% as compared to the oral Rx 40 to 50%