"Any time you have a benefits plan , you are going to have to have limits on it . Try actually READING your article and THINKING as you do . So , you are talking an incredibly expensive drug that MAY work 20 % of the time when it is used . Are they just letting these people die .... giving them morphine for the pain and letting them waste away ? No So , what is the current treatment and how effective is it ? Obviously it is more COST effective . We dont know what the current treatment is , or how effective it is , because what you posted here is a one sided opinion piece masquerading as a news article , and you ate it up ."
"Agreed . You might also ask whether you treat 1 cancer patient with this new expensiveand unreliable drug , or many patients with a different drug , or a different condition . The money has to stop somewhere ."
"Any time you have a benefits plan , you are going to have to have limits on it . Try actually READING your article and THINKING as you do"
"Agreed ."