Michigan Health Care Regulators Just Restricted Access to Promising New Cancer Treatments
Ah, the good old "certificate of need/necessity" laws once again are used to block competition so that the largest hospital cartel/conglomerate can have a protected monopoly.
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But under the new rules adopted by the Michigan Certificate of Need Commission, hospitals will need to go through unnecessary third-party accreditation processes before being able to offer CAR T-cell therapies. Even after obtaining that additional accreditation, hospitals would have to come back to the CON commission for another approval—a process that effectively means only large, wealthy, hospital-based cancer centers will be able to offer the treatments.
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In favor of the new rules? The University of Michigan Health System, the state's largest hospital system, which argues that the new rules are necessary for patient safety.
To be clear: It's not a question of patient safety. In 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two CAR T-cell therapies for children suffering from leukemia and for adults with advanced lymphoma.
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Not a question of safety, just a question of UofM Health System wanting to remain the only cancer treatment game in town, keeping prices high which keeps cash cow fat and all the milk drinkers skimming off the racket nice and fat as well.
Feel free to keep deluding yourselves if you think more government is a solution to healthcare costs and access though. First step to proper insanity is always ignoring plain old reality in favor of the delusion.
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