[Psycho_Bunny]

I should have qualified that....I don't believe the government should be involved in healthcare, so I'm adverse to expenditures like this. If a private plan wants to cover it, I'm all for it.

And even though there's no doubt Dendreon's doing incredible work and I hope they keep extending their success, it's 4 bad months: you're still dying from cancer.

I don't think I'd want this treatment - facing four more months of misery before the inevitable doesn't sound appealing to me.

[jessduntno]

“I don’t think I’d want this treatment - facing four more months of misery before the inevitable doesn’t sound appealing to me.”

You make a good point. I don’t think, though, that there was a distinction being made between painful or not in re: end of life in this treatment schema ... while I might agree with you in the event that it is most often the case, it is not always thrue that there is unamangeable pain. When my Dad died, he was really quite lucid and discomforted, but not in severe pain.

It is the slippery slope that concerns me. Who is going to evaluate how futile, how much pain, how little meds? I would like to think that would continue to be between us and the Doctor ... not to take any medicines off the table unilaterally ... not all cases are the same.

[Eepsy]

The problem comes in where they start handling healthcare the British way. In the UK, you can’t pay the extra 4k for the one cancer drug. If you do, they make you pay full price for all your cancer treatment.

[A_perfect_lady]

I don't think I'd want this treatment - facing four more months of misery before the inevitable doesn't sound appealing to me.

Yeah. I'm leaning that way too.

[spectre]

I don't think I'd want this treatment - facing four more months of misery before the inevitable doesn't sound appealing to me.

Tell that to the chemo patient who desperately wants to live just a few more months so they can be there for the birth of their grand child..

Happens every day, bunny.