And So Rationing Begins: ObamaCare vs. Breast Cancer Patients

Townhall.com ^ | February 26, 2011 | Garrett Murch

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[sheana]

At a cost of up to $100k per year noone will pay for Avastin out of their own pockets.

[napscoordinator]

I find these stories ridiculous. Obama Care begins in 2013 so this is propaganda. The very thing we hate. Plus the House has not even given a dime towards Obama care yet and hopefully they won’t.

[webboy45]

This article has things wrong. Avastin has never been shown to help breast cancer patients. The FDA originally oked its use so the FDA director could get a cushy job at Roche. These are all well known facts in the industry. And, in an unprecedented move the FDA has invited Roche to justify the drug's use in breast cancer.

[onedoug]

DEATH PANELS

[CurlyDave]

All drugs are expensive when first introduced, and typically become less expensive as time goes on and creative ways to lower costs are found.

As soon as patent protection runs out, generics are available at substantial discounts.

If we circumvent this natural progression, the drug will be very expensive forever.

[ilgipper]

You don’t think the federally controlled FDA isn’t starting to make decisions to ‘bend the cost curve’ to lower federal spending on health care? This happens in every nation where the government both pays for health services and controls supply.

[Dr. Ursus]

True,but I did enjoy the “family jewels” commerical for
Valentines Day.

[sportutegrl]

The objective is not to deny women this lifesaving drug, but to pick and choose who gets it.

[Polybius]

ObamaCare is worse than the private insurance companies about not covering illnesses.

There is no doubt that giving a private company too much power can result in a bad situation.

What the naive believers in Big Government Socialism do not understand is that giving too much power to a Government is far worse.

The answer is finding the right system of Checks and Balances and not swinging from one power extreme to the other.

[smalltownslick]

Something useful the Komen Foundation could do with all that money they raise.

[nascarnation]

Medicare is only underfunded long term by $72 Trillion or so.
How could this be?

/sarc

[silverleaf]

“if you had a prescription for it”

maybe you won’t find a doctor who will go against the FDA and the uS govt and write a prescription for it, will you?

Obamacare makes it very very hard for a doctor to buck the system. It attempts to make aggressive medical care for some patients a “bad” thing. Eventually, the obamites will succeed in making most of society accept that people who want to live and whose care is very expensive- are “selfish”

Ironically this drug Avastatin is effective against other types of cancer such as colon and prostate- will it continue to be prescribed for them but not breast cancer?

[silverleaf]

ah but the insurance industry is already adjusting coverages in anticipation

the government studies and recommendations that will be used to justify obamacare rationing are already being ublished and used as industry standards for determining levels of patient care that are to be covered, ie the Govt study that decided women under 40 do not "need" mammograms nor should women even be doing breast self-exams! How many health plans now deny routine mammograms to women under 40?

I know my own spouse who just entered MEDICARE at age 65 got ONE physical exam at program entry and is not entitled to covergae for any more routine physical exams! This just boggle the senses that "good medicine" now decrees that people over 65 should NOT be covered for annual physicals by their paid-for govt health plan. All our lives we've been advised to get an annual check up! Now all of a sudden it's not necessary.