Remodel–YES!–Pay for Life-Extending Cancer Drug–NO!
September 2, 2010 (Secondhand Smoke)
NICE–the rationing board for the UK’s NHS–is the model that Obamacare’s major supporters want for us, and the potential to create such centralized control was passed under Obamacare. For example, Former Senator Tom Daschle, described by the NYT as the most influential outside adviser on Obamacare, loves NICE.
NICE gives Donald Berwick, now temporarily the head of Medicare, the vapors. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, has supported Berwick’s views, lending her heft for health care rationing under Obamacare. With so many powerful Obamacaricrats swooning over NICE, it is worth our time to keep a close eye on on the rationing board’s many harmful actions.
In our latest chapter, NICE has spent 500,000 pounds to remodel its offices, while denying NHS coverage for a bowel cancer drug that extends life about 8 months. From the story:
"Controversial rationing body NICE has spent £500,000 on a plush office refurbishment – despite turning down life-extending cancer drugs for being too expensive."
