WHAT THIS AMOUNTS TO IS SIMPLE:British heart doctors are trying to defeat a proposal to end government coverage of drug-coated heart stents, tiny metal-mesh tubes that prop open clogged arteries.
The proposal was made by Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which has the lead role in deciding what the country's health system pays for.
... The stents are commonly used in angioplasties, one of the world's most common medical procedures.
More than 1 million such procedures are performed in the United States every year.
Through an artery in the leg, doctors snake a tube to blockages that are clogging vessels. A tiny balloon is inflated, and a mesh scaffold called a stent is left behind to prop the artery open.
If the British proposal is adopted, patients would either get a plain, metal stent or be forced to pay for the drug-coated device themselves. Drug-lined stents typically cost about US$2,300 (euro1,685), compared to the approximately US$700 (euro510) for the bare metal versions.
THE GOVERNMENT DICTATES THAT YOU EITHER GET INFERIOR CARE, OR PAY FOR IT YOURSELF. (BTW: IT'S THE SAME IN CANADA: THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT EITHER!)
WHAT'S SO EFFIN' GOOD ABOUT THAT KIND OF "UNIVERSAL" HEALTHCARE!? NOTHING.
Well, if it doesn't work there, then it won't work here. Yet every single Dem candidate for POTUS wants a taxpayer financed/government run universal healthcare system.
THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THEM IS TO VOTE AGAINST THEM.
Actually we have the same plan in America without so many government middlemen.
ReplyDeleteOurs is better.
nonsense.
ReplyDeleteour seniors get primo coverage.
and everyone else gets what they pay for.
poor people get medicaid.
if it ain't broke, don;t fix it.
actually: we could introduce MORE competition to the system EASILY.
force all states to allow health insurance from any other state for starters.
more vouchers/
more MSA's.
but the last thing we should do is make our system more like the uk's or the eu's or canada's.
NICE is basing its recommendation on the fact that drug-coated stents do not appear to enhance survival
ReplyDeletethe drs are protesting because they are better, and THEY want the option.
ReplyDeletedoctoring should be between the dr and the patient. NOT a govt and a dr.