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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4991)	2/26/2008 6:32:36 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Apparently Avastin was approved in the UK. If Avastin turns out to be a crappy drug for some reason it doesn't deal with the real issue raised by that story. The issue isn't really Avastin, the issue is the ability of people in a socialized health care system to pay extra for access to drugs or treatments that would otherwise be unavailable, without giving up access to the public system (or having to pay directly for the access in addition to their tax money that goes in to the system). If you have a single payer (or like in the UK a government provider) and you want treatments X,Y, and Z, and the government says "we will pay for X, and Y", can you pay for Z yourself without losing X and Y (or having to pay for them out of your own pocket). Apparently in the UK the answer is no.