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Originally Posted by OICU812
Guess we need to put more of our medical decisions in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats. If anyone is a democrat, then they should not even comment on this. What we see going on here is what they want more of, an all powerful, and yet slow, ponderous, disaffected government, making life and death decision for us.
I'm sure they will get around to it, unless of course they need to hold hearings on sports related injuries or steroid use, or.... well you know, important stuff.
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Instead, we have public industry failing because many cancer drugs are not particularly profitable. When I was going through chemo last summer, one of the drugs in my chemo cocktail was in a big shortage. I was able to get it because I was at a major cancer hospital, but many others had to forgo treatment or take a lesser substitute.
This, by the way, happens ALL the time. Because when you're fighting for your life, you need to worry about one more thing - particularly something as preventable as a medicine shortage. And everyone involved in this process has dropped the ball.
Those of us with rare cancers (and all childhood cancers are considered rare) are absolutely failed by the free market because it is not profitable to produce our drugs or research new drugs for such a small population.
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