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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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It's when people whine aboutthe NHS saying "why can I buy this drug privately but not get it on the NHS, it's putting money before peoples lives" and you want to smash their faces and say "YES, YES IT FUCKING WELL IS, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO DO IT! You can only compare like with like, so you have to make a cold calculating decision as to how much someone's life is worth so that you can compare that with the cost of the drug. And most of these drugs are so expensive and offer such limited benefit that it isn't good value to provide them so that one person may live three months longer but twenty people die because the hospital has less beds."
(, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:22, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
The NHS don't put a limit on the amount they'd pay for a cure.They put a limit on the amount they'd pay for treatment.
(, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:26, Reply)
That's what I saidIt's assessed against how much more life someone will get, and that life is converted to an amount of money to make the comparison.
(, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:30, Reply)
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