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So-called health care reform
Ag Blogs - Sen. Pat Roberts
Friday, 05 March 2010 15:19
One doesn’t have to look very far to find a glaring example of why I oppose the so-called health care reform bill before Congress.

The Telegraph newspaper in London recently reported that the British government declared that it will not pay for a new drug proven to extend the lives of patients suffering from rare cancers of the blood and bone marrow, including two forms of leukemia.

Authorities are prohibiting the nearly 700 patients a year who are eligible for the treatment from getting the drug because it’s too expensive.

This disturbing news is further evidence for why I oppose the reform bills before Congress. If the government is allowed to take over even more of our health care sector I fear it will further ration care in America, just as is happening in England under government controlled medicine.

The Telegraph quotes a patient advocate who says “Azacitidine is just one of the many drugs for rarer cancers to be rejected by [the government health system] in the past year. The current system is failing people with rarer cancers. It’s time for a more flexible approach - one that doesn’t rule you out if you have the wrong kind of cancer.”

Doctors should make treatment decisions based on what is best for the patient, not based on the cheapest option for the government.

-U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)
 
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1 Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:33
So no matter how many times the concept of "government rationing of health care" being proposed in the health care reform can be debunked, Pat Roberts continues to beat the tired old fearmongering drum.
http://blog.aarp.org/shaarpsession/2009/08/debunked_health_reform_means_r.html
There's Brownback talking about the same sort of thing.

I wish the Senator would provide, in detail, any provisions in the health care proposals which mean the government will be rationing health care, rather than a sad story from London.

"Doctors should make treatment decisions based on what is best for the patient, not based on the cheapest option for the government."
Right now, it's based on the cheapest option for the INSURANCE COMPANIES, Senator. And if you can't see that something needs to be done to take care of that, you don't have your constituents' best interests in mind.
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