Coming soon to Obamacare. You’d think decisions like this would prompt a public outcry and have the bureaucrats tarred and feathered.
We can't have a situation like we do with federal judges where their addresses are kept secret.
The worst aspect is that it will elevate unelected bureaucrats to a God-like status.
Ordinary people will have to grovel and beg and prostrate themselves before unelected bureaucrats, trying to get a life-saving waiver for themselves or their family members.
If the rationing and suffering was shared equally it would be bad enough.
But it won't be. Those with political connections will zip to the front of the line. Those out of favor will have their paperwork “lost.”
This gives political hacks the power of life and death over us, and will turn us into groveling beggars.
“Coming soon to Obamacare.”
Coming Soon? It has been here for some time now. Anyone in clinical medicine knows about the routine denial of reimbursement for Sutent which is about four grand a month. If you think private insurance is more compassionate than U.K.’s socialist NHS, you are sorely mistaken.
I can’t speak for Lapatinib because I have no data on it but I’m sure a google news of it should turn up a denial or two. Socialized medicine does not hold a monopoly on treatment denials, private insurance in the US holds its own in that department.
They soon will start giving out free cigarettes now that it has been determined to actually save health system money rather than costing the system more money.
“You’d think decisions like this would prompt a public outcry and have the bureaucrats tarred and feathered.”
The outcry should be that the FDA, PharmaNazi’s & AMA suppress cancer cures and promote very expensive drugs that rarely succeed in ridding the patient of cancer and often kill the patient.
Many suppressed, but successful cancer treatments are available from natural sources, but lack of patentability makes them personna-non-grata in allipathic medicine because there is no money in it.
Where IS the outcry?
Image what would happen if Hillary and her cohorts needed expensive cancer treatments.