Health Care BS

Comments 7

1. Marc Brown wrote:

   We’ve been through all this before - there’s nothing stopping anyone with money going for private treatment in the UK, and in the US access to tier 4 experimental drugs is severely limited thanks to the huge copays.

   Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 4:29 pm ¶
2. SmartDoc wrote:

   Murder pure and simple. For anyone to defend this level of needless cruelty says a lot about such a person.

   Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 10:40 pm ¶
3. Marc Brown wrote:

   How would you characterise the thousands of excess deaths through lack of health insurance in the US, and the unaffordability of many treatments, most of which are standard in the UK, France and other countries? You should also bear in mind that without long term data, standard treatment (which all in the UK get, unlike the US) may well be as good as or better than some recently approved wonder drugs, such as Sutent, which has now been shown to cause heart failure.

   Posted 05 Jun 2008 at 9:23 am ¶
4. Joe C. wrote:

   “standard treatment (which all in the UK get, unlike the US) may well be as good as or better than some recently approved wonder drugs”

   Does this standard treatment include the “magic water” homeopathy therapy your government is funding? Do you also believe in the power of magic water?

   Posted 05 Jun 2008 at 10:49 am ¶
5. Marc Brown wrote:

   Ha ha - coming from the home of quack medicine and creationism that’s really funny.

   Posted 05 Jun 2008 at 12:21 pm ¶
6. Joe C. wrote:

   ^As usual, you miss the point. Quackery is *everywhere*, but at least we aren’t burning public funds on it like the NHS is. You talk about “excellent fiscal management”, but the Royal Homeoquack Hospital is a pretty good example of the NHS shoveling cash straight into the incinerator.

   Posted 05 Jun 2008 at 3:13 pm ¶
7. Marc Brown wrote:

   Did you know your government is funding research into homeopathy?

   See http://nccam.nih.gov/health/homeopathy/

   10. Is NCCAM funding research on homeopathy?

   Yes, NCCAM supports a number of studies in this area. For example:

   * Homeopathy for physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of fibromyalgia (a chronic disorder involving widespread musculoskeletal pain, multiple tender points on the body, and fatigue).

   * Homeopathy for brain deterioration and damage in animal models for stroke and dementia.

   * The homeopathic remedy cadmium, to find out whether it can prevent damage to the cells of the prostate when those cells are exposed to toxins.

   Also:

   The manufacture and sale of homeopathic medicines is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States was written into federal law in 1938 under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, making the manufacture and sale of homeopathic medicines legal in this country. Most are available without a prescription.

   Posted 06 Jun 2008 at 3:32 am ¶

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