Posted on 09/26/2011 7:07:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An explosion of new technologies and treatments for cancer coupled with a rapid rise in cases of the disease worldwide mean cancer care is rapidly becoming unaffordable in many developed countries, oncology experts said on Monday.
With costs ballooning, a radical shift in thinking is needed to ensure fairer access to medicines and address tricky questions like balancing extra months of life for patients against costs of a new drug, technology or care plan, they said.
"The cancer community needs to take responsibility and not accept a sub-standard evidence base and an ethos of very small benefit at whatever cost," said a report commissioned by the Lancet Oncology medical journal on the costs of cancer care.
"There should be fair prices and real value from new technologies."
Some 12 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer each year and that number is expected to rise to 27 million by 2030.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Abolish the FDA and costs would plummet.
But we’ve got the money to bail out Europe. Go figger.
“The cancer community needs to take responsibility and not accept a sub-standard evidence base and an ethos of very small benefit at whatever cost,” said a report commissioned by the Lancet Oncology medical journal on the costs of cancer care. “
Just preparing the narrative for death panels.
“The cancer community ...”
Words fail me.
This short clip explains it all: http://bricks.posterous.com/breaking-news-social-security-reform-bill
Ah the National Socialist purity campaign rears it’ ugly head yet again. “Life Unworthy of Life” Evil NEVER gives up.
Just do what Obama did.
Cut all cancer treatment off for all people at *age 73* and give Granny a pill.
“Age 73?????” Really?
Just think how much better it’s going to be when healthcare is free! I mean, we’re going to be literally ROLLING in advanced, newly discovered procedures and medicines once Big Pharma and the Medical Community have to give away their products.
News for Reuters: life isn't fair. Fairness is not a property of life and death. Doctors can keep many people technically alive until their money runs out, but then the plug gets pulled. Rich people on average live longer. If this causes intense feelings of envy, try not to stay a poor news propaganda writer.
Trying to kill us off faster, so they have more SS to keep and less Medicare to expend.
Chilling..isnt it...
They tell you the truth...yet many still scoff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2EFSKVo0rs
“WE’RE GONNA LET YOU DIE” says the leftist troll r.reich (met with applause)
Systems can always be "gamed."
That's why honest people get screwed.
Unaffordable to WHO?
Is it unaffordable to the nation developing and making the therapeutics?
Is it unaffordable to the Dr’s and nurses administering the care?
Is it unaffordable to the patient - usually elderly - the wealthiest group of Americans?
Or is it only unaffordable to the poor and the government who has to pay for it, but doesn’t want to because they value money not people?
The Obama health care plan.Die you old SOB.That’s it.
I wonder if treatment for AIDS will ever become “unsustainable”...
This is DUTY TO DIE!!!!
Obamacare will ration by favored class.
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