Another out of the infinite examples as to why government health care is not a good thing:
A cancer patient given less than two months to live has been refused a life-prolonging drug until an NHS trust finishes a month-long investigation.
Margaret Jones hopes to be treated with Revlimid for myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow.
Her consultant says the drug, which costs around £4,300 for each cycle, could extend the 72-year-old’s life without debilitating side effects.
... Mother-of-three Mrs Jones - backed by her family, MP, doctor and cancer charities - appealed on the grounds that another patient living nearby successfully overturned the trust’s decision to block the same drug treatment in September.
But on December 5 Anne Walker, chief executive of East and North Hertfordshire PCT, said her case was still being investigated and said a response would be sent ‘within 25 working days’ - about half of Mrs Jones’s life expectancy.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) ruled last month that it would deny Revlimid to patients with myeloma despite admitting that it could extend life by up to three years.
What does some far-removed bureaucrat care about your life, you individual you? Yet even the most sinister businessman would try to provide a life-saving drug if there was a profit incentive. At least you would have the chance to purchase the drug. With government in control, your life is not your own. Which would you rather have? It used to be that the Lord would call you home in his good time. Sadly, there's a new god in town.
Free universal health care sounds great until you find out, too late, that you’re scheduled to die. – Robert Klassen
