Posted on 03/06/2009 6:42:56 PM PST by Kaslin
Deadly Rationing: The gatekeeper for Great Britain's national health care system is denying cancer patients drugs that would extend their lives. Why? Because the medication is considered too expensive.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the government agency that decides which treatments the National Health Service will pay for, has effectively banned Lapatinib, a drug that was shown to slow the progression of breast cancer, and Sutent, which is the only medicine that can prolong the lives of some stomach cancer patients.
Banning beneficial drugs due to cost is nothing new in Britain. NICE, which has to be one of history's most ironic acronyms, forbade the use of Tarceva, a lung cancer drug proven to extend patients' lives, and Abatacept, even though it's one of the only drugs that has been shown in clinical testing to improve severe rheumatoid arthritis.
Once again, we have to ask: Do we really want to use the British system as the model for a U.S. health care regime?
Promises of an effective, cost-effective health care system operated by the federal government are cruel fabrications. The British system shows that the state makes a mess of health care. So does the Canadian plan, which is plagued with unhealthy and often deadly waiting times for treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
I don’t think Obama even wants to “remake” the United States into a socialist state.
I think he wants to KILL all the white people in America, through economic chaos, freezing, starving, terrorist attack, etc.—and is willing to see a lot of black people die, too, if that’s what it takes.
Just as he is happy to see most black pregnancies end in murder, just as long as white babies are murdered, too.
Didn’t we fight a war so we wouldn’t have to listen to them? ;-)****
Good point. I never have an answer for that one. Carry on.
Democrats/Liberals/Socialists/Comunists/Dictators...all believe that the *government* owns the people.
And constantly work to make sure that the people believe it too.
Yessiree! “The gubbamint will take care of all your needs and responsibilities!”, “We know whats best for you!”
Until they have you, all cowed and unarmed, incapable of defending yourselves, and then, when you become a liability, they will consider you what you let yourself become...expendable.
This stuff if for real. Even Americans traveling the UK are at risk.
The cost of rationing has a face, it has a heart and it is close to all of us, to our families, to our very lives.
http://www.nahu.org/media/singlepayervideo.cfm
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The answer is obvious: If the lives of citizens aren’t worth much, then the lives of politicians making that equation are worth less.
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