New Proof that Medicare is Taking Us Down an Unsustainable Path
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Medicare officials will now pay the $93,000 cost of the prostate cancer drug Provenge- a therapy that gives men suffering from incurable prostate cancer an extra four months to live.
The article also noted that Medicare is legally prohibited from considering price when deciding whether to pay for a new treatment. Medicare (typically) automatically covers drugs cleared by the FDA as “reasonable and necessary” medicine.
Bioethicists said this ruling reinforces the bias of the overall U.S. health system towards paying for expensive end-of-life treatments at the expense of more basic medical care.
Nobody wants to be the decision maker condemning a terminal patient to death a few months earlier than might be possible. What’s ignored, though, is that funds for treatment for the entire population are finite. If these near-death patients gain up to four months of poor quality of life it comes at the expense of denying billions of dollars of other, more routine care to younger, other beneficiaries that have real long-term prospects for productive lives.
There is no free lunch. Keeping someone alive for an extra 120 days could end up depriving thousands of people their basic health care needs. That our system is designed to prevent any cost/benefit analysis is absurd and ultimately dangerous to the health of the majority of Americans.
Dr. Paul Price
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I can’t argue with the notion that the system we’re stuck with is FUBAR however, offing Gramps to for the sake of youthful illness is much more indicative of a system in drastic need of dissection. Our current pharmaceutical/surgical model of medicine is killing us. We have been herded into this model by subtle coercion. Being told that physicians are the experts, we respond with willful acknowledgement and, submit. Here’s the rub, the drugs the FDA allows us to take are killing us. Adverse reactions, overdosing are just a peek at the problem. My point, the use of alternative methodologies and supplements are proving more effective and, without life threatening, if not life taking, side effects.
Rather than denying an expensive corporate cocktail to extend the life of some segment of society you find ‘not so worthy’, how about changing the way we take care of our health. Educating the new doctors to alternative methods, to address naturally occurring botanical substances already shown to have curative benefits, needs to be pushed to the front of the line. A growing segment of the medical community is quite aware of the lies foisted upon them but, in order to graduate and pay off the debt of medical school, you swallow hard, salute and execute. Fortunately, a growing number of unsatisfied graduating doctors are finding that an educated, well-nourished patient will not only have an improving quality of life but, a better frame of mind knowing they’re actively participating in their own healing.
Just a thought.