hypocritexposer
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this is a story from the UK, but will more or likely be the end result of Government Health Caree in Canada and the US also, without the availability of private Health Care insurance.
Life-extending cancer drugs 'rationed by postcode': Dozens of hospitals refuse to hand out treaments
Hospitals are denying patients the latest life-extending cancer drugs, a report reveals.
Dozens of trusts are failing to hand out treatments for bowel, ovarian, lung and brain cancer that have been approved by the NHS watchdog NICE.
Some of these drugs have been shown to boost survival rates by a quarter while others have extended the lives of terminally-ill patients by over a year.
The report - commissioned by the Department of Health - also reveals that many hospitals are failing to prescribe the latest treatments for heart attacks, asthma, multiple sclerosis, arthritis and Crohn’s Disease.
In fact some of the drugs were approved for use by NICE more than seven years ago.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2260506/Latest-life-extending-cancer-drugs-rationed-postcode-Recommended-treatments-handed-hospitals-others.html#ixzz2Hi4j9vY4
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