[EagleUSA]

Like the Tax Code, socialized medicine will be used as a weapon too.

[SJackson]

We are entering a period of rapid scientific progress that will convert previous killers such as heart disease, stroke and cancer into chronic, controllable conditions. In cancer treatment, my specialty, the next generation of medicines could eliminate the need for time-consuming, expensive and unpleasant chemo and radiotherapy. These treatments mean less would have to be spent later on expensive hospitalization and surgery.

America being advanced in terms of medical research, second generation treatments won't be developed, at least in America, if first generation treatments, and their profits, are eliminated.

[VeniVidiVici]

But it’s for the children!

[TChris]

Where will we get the funding for medical research once the government takes away the profits?

Where will the world go for its top-tier medical needs when the US has joined them in second-tier status?

[Jess Kitting]

This is one of the scariest things about Obamacare.

The government will determine who gets to live and who gets to die. The family will have no say in the matter.

Bureaucracies will decide if granny gets her medication or not. "Big Brother" will decide if you need that operation or not. Government knows best, after all. As long as Americans don't care about their rights and responsibilities, the government will continue to take them from us.

It's sickening. Quite literally.

[Pajamajan]

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[eleni121]

When wait-listed at over a year-—Sick Canadians can always come here for treatment and they do by the thousands.

Where will Americans go when the time comes and the wait list is over 10 + months...?

[haroldeveryman]

“In cancer treatment, my specialty, the next generation of medicines could eliminate the need for time-consuming, expensive and unpleasant chemo and radiotherapy. These treatments mean less would have to be spent later on expensive hospitalization and surgery.”

Prior to 1940 the number one killer was pneumonia. After penicillin pneumonia became little more than a nuisance. Ditto tuberculosis, polio, gonorrhea, .......

New drugs like Herceptin or Sutent are expensive because of Research and Development costs. As R&D costs are recovered, sales will increase. This will allow the use of much less expensive mass production techniques which will bring still lower costs. These drugs will be come less expensive with time.

The real danger in government employing “comparative effectiveness research” as a means of literally holding the power of life or death over each of their constituents is that our bureaucrats and politicians may actually be too stupid and clueless to understand that they too will be affected.

It will be a tragedy if pharmaceuticals become just another static commodity business with pills being cranked out in static third world economies just as cures for cancer are on the verge of being realized.

[SaraJohnson]

The only newspaper to publish an intellegent assement of Obamamessiahfreecare.

[Doomonyou]

Diseases with less vocal lobby groups, such as strokes and mental health, get neglected at the expense of those that can shout louder. This is a principle that could soon be exported to America.

AIDS treatments and Abortions will be swimming in cash.

[jimt]

Every time I hear of Britain's NICE, I think of C.S. Lewis's NICE in That Hideous Strength.

Too bad there's not a Ransom to bring it crashing down.

[Pajamajan]

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[socialismisinsidious]

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