Posted on 05/05/2010 9:26:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Thousands of cancer sufferers are set to be denied a 'miracle' drug on the NHS that is routinely used in virtually every other Western country.
The Government's rationing body says Avastin is not cost-effective despite evidence that it can prolong the lives of bowel cancer patients by more than two years.
The final decision is due next month, but NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, has already made clear the cost breaches its threshold for NHS use.
Ten times as many patients get Avastin paid for by private health insurers than on the health service.
The NICE veto would represent the first major test of a Tory pledge to fund all cancer drugs if the party wins the General Election.
Last night Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley said: 'We will ensure through our new cancer drugs fund that patients will be able to get the drugs that their doctors say they need.
That is what patients expect and deserve.'
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These people who are denying these drugs are playing God. It is not their right to deny these people what they may need.
They are Murderers.
The N.I.C.E wasn’t that the group from CS lewis’s “ That hideous strength”? Lewis and tolkein and orwell were prophetic.
Don’t you get it yet? Abortion is for State population control of beginning life cycle, and Nation Health Care is for population control at end of useful (to the State) life cycle, and working cheap, and paying taxes is the lot of those living between the state-controlled entry and exit points.
Welcome to Serfdom, brought to you by CommieCrates, Satanic Operatives, and like minded idiots and evil doers!
“We’re from the Ministry of Health. Can we ‘ave your liver?”
“But I’m still using it.”
/no sarc
“We’re from the Ministry of Health. Can we ‘ave your liver?”
“But I’m still using it.”
/no sarc
The Brits have a thing or two to learn from its former colonies. Hell, America has a thing or two to learn from its past.
Great Britian is a bad place to get colon cancer.
Not only do they deny drugs for treatment, but they don’t allow a colonoscopy before age 60. And this I am not sure about, but I think it is just lower bowel.
bflr
They obviously aren’t giving these patients the right pill before sending them home, ala Obama.
Sure "hope" you like all that "change" you voted for, folks, 'cause you are about to get it, good & hard...
Thanks for exposing the Next pry bar for politicians to use to get elected,you are going to die LITERALLY if you dont elect me ,These Bastards need to be offed
Like Canada, Washington, and the old USSR, the corrupt, evil ruling class (the “Nomenklatura” in Soviet terms) of the UK has special access to treatment the slave class does not.
Special waivers, special hospitals, special access.
The democrat party in the USA has set this up for its leadershaip and exempted itself from ObamaCare.
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