All the cowards wait until the end of December. ObamaCare rationing begins. Ironically, the FDA’s banning of Avastin happens on the same day it’s European counterpart officially approved its use. Make no mistake, this decision was one about cost for those who are terminally ill and fighting for another chance, or another 6 months. Remember–when people are the budget…
I believe the new Congress can walk and chew gum at the same time. There are many things they need to do, but at the very top of the list must be the complete repeal of the evil obscenity of ObamaCare. (HT to @gerfingerpoken at Twitter). Please read the entire IBD editorial, below is just a snippet. BTW, if you can read only one paper a day it should be Investors Business Daily. Their news reporting and editorial content is singularly fabulous.
IBD: ObamaCare Rationing Begins
The FDA has reversed its approval of a widely used cancer drug approved in Europe to treat breast cancer on the grounds it doesn’t provide a “sufficient” benefit. Let the terminally ill and their doctors decide.
One of the blessings of blocking the omnibus spending bill was that it included $1 billion for the implementation of ObamaCare.
Yet the first effects are still being felt, the latest being the Food and Drug Administration’s revoking of regulatory approval of Avastin to treat late-stage breast cancer.
The reason given by the FDA was that the drug does not provide “a sufficient benefit in slowing disease progression to outweigh the significant risk to patients.” What risk? These women are dying.
The drug buys them precious time, and the only risk they face is from an FDA saying “pull the plug.”
On the same day the FDA channeled Dr. Kevorkian, its European counterpart, the European Medicines Agency, issued a statement approving Avastin for metastatic breast cancer…
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He who pays the piper calls the tune. If the government pays for your health care, the government decides what you get and what you don’t get. When you live and when you die. That’s why you don’t want to depend on Uncle Sugar to cure your ouchies. I have no idea whether Avastin is a good option, and I don’t care whether the government pays for it or not…because I’m not an Uncle Sam dependent. But he’s trying to push me into a position of dependency, and that scares the hell out of me. The rest of us, who make our own arrangements…we have a huge problem when government bureaucrats block access to everyone for reasons that are essentially political. What’s that argument we used to hear in favor of free access to abortion? “Keep your laws off my body!” Whatever became of that line of thinking?
i will be forever thankful for many things i have learned from being a TAM especially in the deathcare debate, but the most applicable thing i’ve learned from you is “when people are the budget…”
there is nothing more sobering than participating in a death panel. there is nothing more foreboding than seeing death panels for everyone.
rick
the holocaust of the “useless eaters”…
and the protests of those most likely to refer to others as Nazis are drowned out by the chirps of crickets.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/neuesvolk.jpg
translation of poster:
“This genetically ill person will cost our people’s community 60,000 marks over his lifetime. Citizens, that is your money. Read Neues Volk, the monthly of the racial policy office of the NSDAP.”
Comrade thierry, following your web link gets me a message that I do not have permission to access the specified image, and now I fear I shall be punished for my attempted transgression.
Here, this link displays what you probably intended to show us.
The eugenics issue gets ticklish, because it’s my personal opinion that people with certain genetic defects should choose not to reproduce. For example, Bree Walker has that condition resulting in fused fingers. It’s genetic, and her son and daughter have the same condition. It’s my opinion that she has done her children a disservice by knowingly bringing them into the world with this gene and in this state. I’m not saying the government should stop her or the kids should be eliminated. But I think her choice is questionable, and I think it’s appropriate for me to voice my concern. If that makes me a monster…well, please don’t report me to the Death Panels.
By the way, I can’t quite make out what your new icon shows. Some sort of cookie?
maynard,
you have used appropriate language on this. you have a right to your opinion and you certainly are not a monster! i used to work at a children’s ortho service and kids with that deformity (syndactyly or claw hands) are a slam dunk for rehab. part of the treatment was always a genetic consult. those kids were almost always revenue positive as adults.
the other end of the spectrum would be the genetic fatal muscle diseases. treatment was always costly and becomes costlier until they finally die. there is nothing more disheartening than genetic counseling followed by a return trip to our clinic with little brother in a stoller a year later.
i am currently treating a autosomal dominant heart defect family! the junior high kid had a stroke and leg compartment blow out that was finally traced to a genetic heart defect. she got a heart transplant and is doing a better. it turns out her sister who is a senior in high school also has it. she had her heart transplant last year. her little sister who is six has it too. when she begins to get sick they will swap her ticker too.
i give you my examples because applied eugenics is very ticklish indeed and the death panels are already in the prototype stage.
slightly off subject, but did anyone catch the nazi art work collection at LACMA a while back? startling propaganda as art against the jooooos and all other out groups. creepy.
rick
and here’s the amazing response to that nazi artwork:
http://www.brasscheck.com/heartfield/gallery.html
odd- the link works fine in Safari but not in Firefox. talk about Holocaust of the Useless Browsers. Compassion is Sinful- i will off Firefox . All Heil Apple! one folk. one browser. one computer.
that is indeed the poster-here it is again larger:
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/archive/poster-neues-volk/
my point is that such things start incrementally- and they always end with healthy people who are less white or less dark, not of the same religion or not of the same politics being considered and defined as a moral disease upon the nation, a contagion propagating their bad blood and taking away from the more deserving productive and superior humans. one day the infirm lost causes are sucking up tax money, a few months later the Jews are ”rats” and the Poles subhuman “pigs”, destroying the Aryan people and siphoning away their strength and livelihood. it’s your money, it should go to Monsanto or george soros not to grandma.
when the Nazis started their T-4 program it was aimed at those with genetic deformities or those born with learning disabilities – graciously referred to as imbeciles. when no one seemed to notice and the doctors went right along( germany’s physicians and scientists were at the time smitten with all the american eugenics research going on. nazi thought was modeled on american and english eugenics ‘science’ not the other way around as commonly assumed), they turned their attention to the old folks homes, euthanizing the aged to make room for the young, healthier people and wounded soldiers. then when that caused no great fuss, it was the turn of the mentally ill some of whom were not just taken from institutions but dragged from their homes and killed.
War Against the Weak is an excellent book about eugenics and the moral issues you bring up. tell me , who has the most potential to contribute more and take away less from society- a trig palin, cared for and raised by a loving family, or a robustly healthy genetically tip top child born into the nightmarish world of crack, welfare, child abuse and crime? the eugenicists in america certainly went after the more obvious genetic flaws, without the precise testing we have now, but they focused their efforts and their laws upon the poor. period. they weren’t going after white middle class anglo-saxons and sterilizing them even if they proved to generate flawed offspring. eugenics was a war on the vigorously breeding poor and those considered not white enough- no matter how healthy their children may have been.
http://amzn.com/1568583214
it’s all about acclimation and forcing people’s moral compass. one can get used to anything really when one subverts one’s own moral senses by fiat or it’s done by force. they’re starting with a cancer drug used by a marginal amount of people. how far do you think they’ll take it? do you trust urkel… ?
that is a ritz CRACKER. and 3 penguins in top hats- dancing on the cracker.
I thought the FDA’s job was to determine if a drug was safe or not. They don’t even do that. For years and years they’ve approved drugs onto the market with side effects like “may cause” heart attack, blindess, stroke, or even death! So now they’re going to be the arbiter of “sufficient benefit”?
Just more proof that we were right, and Palin was the only one who had the guts to stand up and say it.
Where is NOW ? Hasn’t this decison by the FDA restricted a Woman’s Right to Choose?
What I sent to my congressman and senators:
Issue: Avastin
Honorable Sir,
When I first heard that Avastin was being considered as a candidate for approval reversal by the FDA, I thought they really would not do this. NOW, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance would strongly lobby and condemn this possible reversal.
Hardly more than a statement has been heard by any of them.
Sir, this is exactly what small government conservatives have been expressing their concerns over. When PEOPLE are the BUDGET, and the Federal/State govts take over a private sector service or industry, costs and services are serverly curtailed or eliminated. On a personal note, my 80 year old ‘healthy as a horse’ mother has just had a lump on her sternum identified as cancerous. What more do I have to say except that EVERY ONE of YOUR STAKEHOLDERS knows someone who has dealt with varying forms of the fight against Breast Cancer. We need all the help we can get and the FDA is deciding that 30% isn’t good enough – WHO ARE THEY? DOCTORS? NO! You are MY VOICE – PLEASE SPEAK OUT.
Thank You, Chris Richards
Call me anytime.
Anybody want to tell me again how compassionate “progressivism” is?
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