WHAT: To save money, Britain’s National Health Service has demanded that family doctors ration the number of patients they send to hospitals for life-saving cancer scans.HOW: This rationing is expected to delay the wait for MRIs and CT scans by several weeks, increasing the risk of patients being diagnosed too late and dying needlessly.
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Not a lot of details have emerged yet about the FDA's decison to revoke approval for Avastin, aside from this brief notice at the Washington Post.
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The Washington Post reports that the FDA is considering revoking approval for Avastin, a late-stage breast cancer drug, largely because they’re worried about over cost concerns:
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The AP reports that a new report by economic experts at the Department of Health and Human Services found that Obamacare “will increase national health care spending by $311 billion from 2010-2019, or nine-tenths of 1 percent.” So much for bending the cost curve downward.
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