Those are the words used by groups that tried to intervene in the latest decision of the British National Health Service. They have decided that British sufferers of kidney cancer will no longer have access to life-prolonging drugs commonly available in Europe and the US. British kidney cancer patients can expect no help from the National Health Death Service.
The drugs-rationing body for the NHS has been accused of bullying, ignoring and patronising patients.
The unprecedented attack follows the highly-controversial decision to ban drugs that can extend the life of kidney cancer victims.
Experts asked to advise the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence have lodged complaints, describing the consultation as a sham.
Two patients' representatives attacked the system as 'flawed and irrational' while the charity Kidney Cancer UK is also expected to make an official complaint about being ignored.
Nice's decision to ban four drugs widely available in Europe and the U.S. was described as a 'death sentence' by doctors, patient groups and campaigners.
Now the complaints have shed new light on the way such life-and-death decisions are made.
Do read it all, especially this part:
Nice admits they work but says they cost too much.
This is what "free" health care entails, folks. Bureaucrats will decide who gets what drugs, care, service – they will decide who lives or who dies. And they will be LESS answerable than the much maligned private insurance companies in this country.
Still think socialized medicine is the answer?
Pray you don't get an unapproved cancer, then.
I can’t believe they’ve actually named a national scientific program "NICE." In C. S. Lewis’ prescient novel, That Hideous Strength, NICE was the National Institute for Coordinated Experimentation, a highly Orwellian bureaucracy.
Right again, Jack!
Yep, let’s all jump right on that Universal Health Care bandwagon. The instruments in the band are starting to play a dirge.
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That is disgusting and scary. Those NICE executives should be prosecuted, severly tortured…and sent to the National Health Service, only to wait for an appointment.