Comments on: Are modern cancer drugs worth the money?

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:32:39 +0000

Yet the government can find £53 Billion to prop up an aling bank, how about let the bank collapse and spend that money on saving lives and giving people a few more years with thier loved ones.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:28:32 +0000

At some point, we all have to die. How many old people shuffle around from one doctor’s appointment to the next? Or the dominate focus of their conversations is all their health problems? We’re not all going to live to be 95 and those that sometimes try end up looking like the living dead.

Our society has a problem with dying, and its breaking our wallets, too. Spending $200,000 (rather, having someone else pay that amount) to extend one’s like 2-3 months doesn’t seem uber efficient. Live your life to the fullest now, so that when the time comes, you don’t have regrets and aren’t afraid to ’see the light’

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:49:45 +0000

Provision of “free” health services is a bottomless pit, as research is constantly identifying new and costly ways of treating existing or previously obscure conditions that would previously have been regarded as untreatable. The NHS is a cash machine for the drug companies.

Not to mention the costs of NHS mis-management and health tourism that drain the resources which should go to the people who have paid for them through their taxes.

Given that we are stuck with the NHS, we are also stuck with NICE which makes the decisions on where to draw the line on the cost of treatments. It’s a pity we don’t also have a similar organisation to draw the line on who gets the “free” treatment which is currently so readily handed out to anyone who walks through the door.