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Father dies day after receiving breakthrough cancer drug he had battled for five months to get.
The Daily Mail ^
| 7/13/2013
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 07/13/2010 10:09:33 AM PDT by domeika
A father-of-two died of cancer the day after a 'breakthrough' drug he had battled for nearly five months to get finally arrived in the post. The family of Stuart Cunningham, 51, were left heartbroken after he succumbed to the disease without getting the chance to try the drug, known as Afinitor. Used to treat kidney cancer, it is an option for patients who have not responded to Sunitinib, the primary drug used to fight the condition.
Mr Cunningham's wife, Tracy, said she was 'angry and frustrated' at the NHS, which refused to fund the Afinitor because it was not 'cost-effective'. --SNIP--
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: cancer; deathpanels; healthcare; healthscare; lping; medicine; nhs; obamacare; romney; romneycare; romneydeathpanels; socialisthealthcare; socialized; socializedmedicine
Socailized medicine sounds like it's working out real well in England. Can't wait till we get some of that here. </sarc>
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posted on
07/13/2010 10:09:35 AM PDT
by
domeika
To: domeika
All you have to do is read the comments on this article to see where we are headed. The Brits are already there and obviously are not happy about it. But full steam ahead anyway!
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posted on
07/13/2010 10:22:11 AM PDT
by
ScottinSacto
(W.W.M.R.D.? - What Would Mitch Rapp Do?)
To: domeika
Donald Berwick must be pleased...
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posted on
07/13/2010 10:35:41 AM PDT
by
tips up
To: domeika
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posted on
07/13/2010 10:37:59 AM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
To: domeika
Of course Obama says his socialized medicine scheme won’t have these Death Panels.
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posted on
07/13/2010 10:59:00 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Unemployment has DOUBLED since the Democrats took control of congress)
To: ScottinSacto
All you have to do is read the comments on this article to see where we are headed...Actually, I was amazed to read this comment:
I don't see why the family did not fund the drug whilst waiting for the NHS appeal. If I needed a drug to prolong my life and the NHS refused to pay for it I would pay for it out of my own savings, and expect my family to pay out of what they would inherit from me.
The family seem to have waited a long time before acting. - kerry livermore, London, England, 13/7/2010 15:26
I thought that all of our British cousins had adopted the same repugnance to the idea of "user pays" that so many of our Canadian cousins seem to cling to.
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posted on
07/13/2010 11:11:45 AM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(I'm never fully dressed without a snark.)
To: domeika
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posted on
07/13/2010 11:34:17 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: MaggieCarta
I thought that all of our British cousins had adopted the same repugnance to the idea of "user pays" that so many of our Canadian cousins seem to cling to. Actually what the Brit commenter seems to not know about his own NHS is that if a British subject funds their own treatment they are no longer eligible for NHS, so this guy would have gotten one dose of the drug and then been thrown off the NHS roles and how much of the drug could he afford?
Nationalized health is a death sentence to anyone who is old or has a disease that costs a little more than the government wants to pay.
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posted on
07/13/2010 12:07:37 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: MaggieCarta
I’ve lost track of the particulars of what socialized health care systems do not forbid purchasing drugs at full retail on the side. Seems some do and some don’t. It seems awfully chintzy to put your own life at a lower priority than getting your socialized medicine system to pay for whatever.
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posted on
07/13/2010 12:52:11 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: calex59
If kicked out of the NHS altogether this means a lot of medications would have to be paid out of pocket, not just the medication in question.
Can’t yank any of those puppet strings out of the hands of the death panels, ya know!
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posted on
07/13/2010 12:54:07 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: calex59
so this guy would have gotten one dose of the drug and then been thrown off the NHS roles and how much of the drug could he afford?
Add to that the fact Brits are taxed at a 60%+ tax rate LARGELY TO FUND NHS. And your tax rate doesn't go down just because you get dropped from the NHS roles. So with that much of your income being confiscated, really...how much could you afford?
The vicious cycle of socialism.
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posted on
07/13/2010 1:11:22 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
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posted on
07/13/2010 1:12:49 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: domeika
Why didn't the gubmint pay for this drug? Did they have to go to the moon to get it? Isn't it just a bunch of chemicals?
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posted on
07/13/2010 1:42:12 PM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
To: HiTech RedNeck
...It seems awfully chintzy to put your own life at a lower priority than getting your socialized medicine system to pay for whatever.No argument here.
Besides, he lived for 5 months apparently without any treatment. A properly motivated first year law student might make the case that but for receiving the "breakthrough" cancer drug, he would have lived.
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posted on
07/13/2010 1:58:11 PM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(I'm never fully dressed without a snark.)
To: calex59
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posted on
07/13/2010 2:08:22 PM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(I'm never fully dressed without a snark.)
To: domeika
Stuart, of Smalley, near Derby [...]
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:02:37 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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