On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:39:43 GMT, john_kulp@hotmail.com (John Kulp)
wrote:
>One such case was Debbie Hirst’s. Her breast cancer had metastasized,
>and the health service would not provide her with Avastin, a drug that
>is widely used in the United States and Europe to keep such cancers at
>bay. So, with her oncologist’s support, she decided last year to try
>to pay the $120,000 cost herself, while continuing with the rest of
>her publicly financed treatment.
What the heck? An injection of Avastin costs $70.
>Patients “cannot, in one episode of treatment, be treated on the
>N.H.S. and then allowed, as part of the same episode and the same
>treatment, to pay money for more drugs,” the health secretary, Alan
>Johnson, told Parliament.
And why not?? |