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1 posted on 08/16/2010 5:54:07 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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The Ruling Class will ensure that they get the best health care We The People’s confiscated tax dollars can provide them. The Peons, you and I, aka enemies of the State, will get nothing.

Welcome to the Hussein, Reid, Pelosi Genocide.


2 posted on 08/16/2010 5:56:54 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010.)
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bump


3 posted on 08/16/2010 5:57:35 PM PDT by opentalk
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Walk door to door before November and inform your friends and neighbors about the truth of this premeditated genocide of the sick, disabled, and elderly. You MUST ensure that the voters understand that their lives are at stake in this election.


4 posted on 08/16/2010 5:58:54 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010.)
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The first of many "effectiveness" findings to come our way. May they strike first at all those who ridiculed Sarah Palin for telling the truth.
5 posted on 08/16/2010 5:59:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Keep in mind that Avastin is used for late-stage cancers.

People should be able to do pretty much whatever they want to try to live when they have such an advanced disease.

The government changing the label and thus how it can be prescribed (and thereby setting doctors up for malpractice suits if they prescribe it off-label), IS NOTHING MORE THAN RATIONING. And because they are rationing a drug to prolong life, THOSE WHO RATION ARE THE DEATH PANELS.


6 posted on 08/16/2010 6:00:18 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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Is anyone surprised that white women are hurt the worst with this.


9 posted on 08/16/2010 6:06:07 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Nice. Women helped elect Obama. How is that Hope & Change working out?


10 posted on 08/16/2010 6:08:06 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats are the party of Islam.)
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Of course.....But if Nazi Pelosi or Moochelle got Cancer (god forbid) I’ll bet they would pull out all the stops and get the best Drugs/Treatment....


16 posted on 08/16/2010 6:32:41 PM PDT by jakerobins
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“They Were Expendable”

title of a WWII movie starring John Wayne

And the victims of Obamacare


17 posted on 08/16/2010 6:44:03 PM PDT by VOA
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IMO, this is overblown. If a drug is ineffective (or, worse, more harmful than helpful), it is reasonable to quit paying for it. I have no problem with that.

OTOH, however, it may be the thin end of the wedge for future denial of effective drugs that are 'too expensive'.

20 posted on 08/16/2010 7:00:17 PM PDT by expatpat
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a Bell curve of results will surely show that some patients receiving this drug survive much longer than others?

at least that’s the case with most cutting-edge medical treatments for cancers etc.

plus there is the prospect for refining and narrowing the criteria for which patients benefit a lot more.....

I’d be extremely hesitant to throw away such possibilities for anyone I care about.....

[speaking as an 8-year survivor of a type of aggressive carcinoma which used to kill all of its patients just a generation ago]

I owe my life to a pair of chemo drugs which were once only “experimental” and I’d like to extend the maximum possible benefit-of-any-doubt to doctors and patients and families trying to find their way through the difficulties of late-stage cancer treatments


21 posted on 08/16/2010 7:08:48 PM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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If medical studies show that the drug doesn’t even extend life by a single month, and if the drug doesn’t improve the quality of life during the time before death, then the drug is basically ineffective, and if so, why should it be recommended?


22 posted on 08/16/2010 7:19:24 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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You would be surprised how low the price could be and it still would not be worth their money to keep you alive.


24 posted on 08/16/2010 7:36:38 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (You can force me to recycle, but I will NOT sing the song!)
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