Posted on 11/25/2007 8:51:45 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
Cancer patients across Britain are facing a life-or-death postcode lottery which decides whether they get vital drugs and treatment...
Because there are no national regulations, every NHS trust decides which cancer drugs to offer and how much cash to spend....
New research shows some hospital trusts are spending three times more than others on fighting cancer.
It is staggering proof that where you live could determine how long you live.
Close analysis of the latest government figures reveals amazing discrepancies in NHS spending per patient from one Primary Care Trust to another. It shows how:
Each cancer sufferer in bottom-of-the-table Oxfordshire is allotted just £5,182 a year—while in top-ranking Nottingham the spending is treble that at £17,028.
Patients in high-spending areas such as Birmingham or Knowsley, Liverpool, have a 20 per cent better chance of surviving than those in low-spending Dorset or parts of Yorkshire.
Even neighbouring towns differ wildly, with Hounslow (£11,726) in the Home Counties spending almost double Ealing's £6,650; and Solihull (£6,405) in the Midlands being outstripped by Wolverhampton (£10,797).
Such inequalities have forced cancer patients to travel around the country to get access to costly drugs that could extend their lives...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsoftheworld.co.uk ...
I wonder how long the poor Brits (and Canadians) will suffer and die unnecessarily before they scrap this idiot system.
Further proof that we never need that abomination of a system here in America.
Hillary care, coming to a hospital near you!
What a wonderful tool to encourage diversity, and to punish political opposition this is!
Double ditto!
Under HillaryCare, only well connected politicians (and their friends and supporters) will have access to quality health care. The rest of us will be condemned to wards and wait-lists.
What? I thought that with socialized medicine everyone, regardless of where they lived or their ability to pay, got the very best treatment.
One way to guarantee there won't be enough of something to go around is to make it "free".
That is if the friends of Hillary don’t get on the bad side of Ms. Paranoid. Which they will, of course; and then they which they don’t realize will be in the hole with us.
Thus my tagline:
If they kill us off with the National Health System, then they won’t have to pay us a Social Security benefit. This will give them a way to save both programs.
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Don't you know liberals by now? If it doesn't work, and makes things worse, spend MORE on it.
The American Cancer in its current ads is promoting hillary care in a very subdued manner. Like many fine American NGO’s the cancer society has gone leftwing.
No more money to the Cancer Society lefties.
They want what the Brits have
I just got back from cancer surgery - a very minor basal cell carcinoma, thank God, but still enough to make me think about socialized medicine. I have a nice scar on my face next to my nose, so I have a good way to start the conversation nicely.
I love to remind people that the entire process, from my first doctor visit to eventual cure, took nine weeks. It would have taken six weeks but I wanted some time in Anchorage before Thanksgiving.
Canadians tell me the same process in Ontario would have taken two and a half years.
Any questions?
This particular issue also illustrates the medical rationing problem. Distributing the medication in an uneven fashion results in some lives saved, distributing it absolutely equally may results in everyone having equally bad outcomes. So, save some lives, or not? It’s one of those test questions for a medical ethics class.
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