Posted on 10/26/2007 7:15:13 PM PDT by mware
Faced with the prospect of losing her father to cancer, Chantelle Hill reacted a little differently to the average six-year-old.
Instead of letting the grown-ups deal with it, she decided to save him herself.
Now, she has raised more than £4,000 to buy the life-saving drugs David Hill needs after he was told they were not available to him on the Health Service.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The drug he needs is Tarceva, widely used here in the US.
That’s really sad.
I wish them the best.
The drug Mr Hill needs is called Tarceva. It is available for free in Scotland but not in England, as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence found it was not "an effective use of NHS resources".
Nice when they get to decide if you live or die because it is not an effective use of government money.
thanks for posting this, this will be added to:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/britishhealthcare.htm
There are a lot people here who think that Hillary would be no worse that some republicans. I hope they read this.
They won’t.
Mitt Romney care isn’t all that different is my understanding...
Wouldn’t surprise me if he pulls a Bush, and unveils something even more far reaching than the medicare drug boondoggle during the general election.
Any politician that supports HillaryCare will not get my vote.
Government Socialist health-care is a disaster as all government programs and socialism have been. That Democrats and Hillary Clinton have pushed for National health-care for so long shows that Democrats and the Democrat party are evil communist/Socialist entities.
Democrat Hillary Clinton becoming president in 2009 will lead to Socialism for the United States, National government health-care, hundreds of millions of 3rd world illegals flooding the United States, the poverty and oppression and breadlines that socialism will bring. John McCain becoming president will give us pretty much the same thing the only difference being that McCain says he “supports” the troops and will leave troops in Iraq.
McCain and Hillary should read Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged” instead of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx that is their bible.
Ayn Rand quotes:
The difference between a welfare state and a
totalitarian state is a matter of time.
Ayn Rand quotes:
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power
any government has is the power to crack down on
criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals,
one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
crime that it becomes impossible for men to live
without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of
law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be
observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and
you create a nation of law-breakers.
Ayn Rand quotes:
Do you think that we want those laws to be observed?
We want them broken. There’s no way to rule innocent
men. The only power the government has is the power to
crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t
enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many
things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for
men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand quotes:
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth
produced by others is claiming the right to treat
human beings as chattel.
Ayn Rand quotes:
Every government interference in the economy consists
of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to
some men at the expense of others.
Ayn Rand quotes:
Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate
this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the
Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on
private individuals — that it does not prescribe the
conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of
the government — that it is not a charter _for_
government power, but a charter of the citizen’s
protection _against_ the government.
Ayn Rand quotes:
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but
by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce,
you need to obtain permission from men who produce
nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those
who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see
that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work,
and your laws don’t protect you against them, but
protect them against you - when you see corruption
being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -
you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand quotes:
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours
is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can
help you escape it — that no substitute can do your
thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.
This is what the liberals have in store for us.
It sounds like the local health nazis get to decide who lives and who doesn't. Hillary won't allow that to happen. She's have her centralized bureaucracy decide.
Seriously, who in their right mind would trade what we have for what they have? What a sweet little daughter who will do anything to keep her Dad alive! How proud he must be to have such a daughter!
That’s a really smart six-year-old.
This is how liberals want our health care to be.
Not theirs, of course, just ours.
Where do I send a cheque?
It's not a life saving drug at all. It prolonged survival in 9% of the patients having late stage, non-small cell lung cancer(after std chemo failed) by 2 months, and has an ~12% response rate in late stage pancreatic cancer.
Erlotinib in previously treated non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shepherd FA, Rodrigues Pereira J, Ciuleanu T, Tan EH, Hirsh V, Thongprasert S, Campos D, Maoleekoonpiroj S, Smylie M, Martins R, van Kooten M, Dediu M, Findlay B, Tu D, Johnston D, Bezjak A, Clark G, Santabárbara P, Seymour L; National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group.
Department of Medical Oncology, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital Site, University of Toronto, Canada.
BACKGROUND: We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial to determine whether the epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor erlotinib prolongs survival in non-small-cell lung cancer after the failure of first-line or second-line chemotherapy. METHODS: Patients with stage IIIB or IV non-small-cell lung cancer, with performance status from 0 to 3, were eligible if they had received one or two prior chemotherapy regimens. The patients were stratified according to center, performance status, response to prior chemotherapy, number of prior regimens, and prior platinum-based therapy and were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive oral erlotinib, at a dose of 150 mg daily, or placebo. RESULTS: The median age of the 731 patients who underwent randomization was 61.4 years; 49 percent had received two prior chemotherapy regimens, and 93 percent had received platinum-based chemotherapy. The response rate was 8.9 percent in the erlotinib group and less than 1 percent in the placebo group (P<0.001); the median duration of the response was 7.9 months and 3.7 months, respectively. Progression-free survival was 2.2 months and 1.8 months, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.61, adjusted for stratification categories; P<0.001). Overall survival was 6.7 months and 4.7 months, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.70; P<0.001), in favor of erlotinib. Five percent of patients discontinued erlotinib because of toxic effects. CONCLUSIONS: Erlotinib can prolong survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer after first-line or second-line chemotherapy. Copyright 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society.
PMID: 16014882 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Mine either.
I’ll see if I cam find out if there is a fund to support his treatment. I just saw the article last night
So you don’t believe Romney when he described the Massachusetts plan as “not a model for the nation”?
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