[FocusNexus]

"Report language accompanying the House stimulus bill says that "more expensive" medical products "will no longer be prescribed."

The clear implication is that the GOVERNMENT will decide what medications you can or cannot have, not your doctor.

As you said, the 'elite' will get whatever they want. This is how it worked in communism.

[FormerACLUmember]

The clear implication is that the GOVERNMENT will decide what medications you can or cannot have, not your doctor. As you said, the 'elite' will get whatever they want. This is how it worked in communism.

Exactly. I want the same exact health insurance policy that Congress gives itself.

[FocusNexus]

NICE’s decision on Alzheimer’s drugs based on flawed calculations

http://www.healthnewstrack.com/health-news-968.html

Thousands of people with early stage Alzheimer’s are being denied access to the only drugs for the disease due to fundamental flaws in the way their cost effectiveness has been calculated.

There has been widespread condemnation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s (NICE) decision to restrict Alzheimer’s drugs that cost just £2.50 a day on the NHS.

Following a ruling by the Court of Appeal in May 2008, NICE was ordered to release the health economic model used to make the decision to key stakeholders. Alzheimer’s Society has reviewed the calculations and submitted a detailed analysis to NICE. The charity has today appealed for NICE to review its decision on Alzheimer’s drugs.

[Hardastarboard]

the GOVERNMENT will decide what medications you can or cannot have

Given that we already have the FDA, the DEA, and the "War On Drugs" it appears to me that they're just extending the power they already have.