Norwegian citizen gets cancer treatment in U.S. [Norwegian government refuses to pay for it]

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[SirLurkedalot]

I bend my knee in gratitude every morning.

May Almighty God bless and keep our Free Republic!

[Balding_Eagle]

I image her treatment is paid for by the same people who pay for the medical care of illegal Mexicans.

[Jim Noble]

[Norwegian government refuses to pay for it]

Why should the taxpayers of Norway pay for it?

It's not part of the deal, a deal they freely chose and, AFAIK, are quite happy with.

[NativeSon]

That is good analogy on a few levels. In socialism, people are cattle...

[NativeSon]

Clinical trials in Europe is big business

[Yaelle]

I image her treatment is paid for by the same people who pay for the medical care of illegal Mexicans.

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State taxpayers? I hope not. She is a doctor. I hope she is paying for it, even if she has purchased an insurance that gives her some discount.

[NativeSon]

The therapies would have made it through the first rounds of clinical trials. It’s not like going to mexico for a latte enema treatment.

[exDemMom]

However, I have heard some people say that Europeans are the FDA's favorite lab rat.

For the most part, drugs are tested on the expected patient population. So if you want to have a drug approved in Europe, you have to test it there. Even if it is already tested in the US.

[MD Expat in PA]

However, I have heard some people say that Europeans are the FDA's favorite lab

I am not so sure about human clinical trials but when I worked for a pharmaceutical (granted in finance not on the science side) I saw a lot of invoices for animal trials from companies in located Europe, many in the Netherlands – mostly monkey and beagles. I am not sure why that was or if that has changed since the early 2000’s. We did have a small animal lab (small in both the size of the lab and as in the size of the animals – mice and rats) in our facility in Baltimore.

[grundle]

Thanks for the link!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Socialized medicine works fine if, you are over 15 and under 45, have something that can be fixed quickly and cheaply.

If you are outside that age bracket or you have something that will require long term treatment you are out of luck. Go die you useless eater.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’m with you, I hope not also, but I’d say the odds are very high that taxpayers are footing the bill

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I look at socialist vs. free market health care coverage as analogous to veterinary medicine for livestock vs. pets. Ranchers want the biggest bang for the buck, so they invest in preventatives like vaccines, but spend very little if an animal develops a more serious disorder. Pet owners, OTOH, care less about the expense and more about a positive outcome, so they are willing to spend much more than the rancher on care for individual animals.

That is a picture of the relation of the individual to the government vs. the relation of the individual to his family. The family places value in the individual, beyond the numbers. The government bureaucrat places value on his own family, other individuals not so much.

[Salamander]

Blast you for making me laugh with cracked ribs.

[Pining_4_TX]

That is excellent. It will be interesting to see what happens in Norway in the future when the oil money starts to decline and if they take in hordes of Muslims. So much for their socialist happiness.

[Toughluck_freeper]

Death Panels:

Sorry, it is not economical to save your life