Tuesday, July 14, 2009

"Health care reform will kill thousands" Sikora

A British doctors view of Obama-care, from Karol Sikora: "One of the more unproductive elements of President Obama’s stimulus bill is the $1.1 billion allotted for “comparative effectiveness research” to assess all new health treatments to determine whether they are cost-effective. It sounds great, but in Britain we have had a similar system since 1999, and it has cost lives and kept the country in a kind of medical time warp.

As a practicing oncologist, I am forced to give patients older, cheaper medicines. The real cost of this penny-pinching is premature death for thousands of patients — and higher overall health costs than if they had been treated properly: Sick people are expensive.It is easy to see the superficial attraction for the United States. Health-care costs are rising as an aging population consumes ever-greater quantities of new medical technologies, particularly for long-term, chronic conditions, such as cancer."

Read the rest:
http://bridgetdgms.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/british-doctor-karol-sikora-this-health-care-reform-will-kill-thousands/

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