mattskramer
Senior Member
That is the whole point of obamacare, it is not your choice, the gov't will decide, nothing but a socialist bill.Interesting because it's the insurance companies will be the ones paying for this. Which means that cost gets passed to everyone else through higher premiums. Now "your choice" is affecting me. Aren't you one of the ones who argues about "paying your own way and not mooching off of everyone else"? This seems like an awfully expensive drug to be using when it isn't proven to be completely effective, especially for a fiscal hawk such as yourself.
Now I'm not saying it should have its approval taken away, at least not for cost reasons. I don't think cost should be a primary factor when considering peoples health, but if the data isn't there to support it being effective then that's a different story.
That's what insurance is - pooled risk. If I want to purchase insurance coverage which includes Avastin as an approved med, I should be able to - just as you should be free to purchase insurance coverage which doesn't. If there is enough demand for both options, then the insurance companies can price them accordingly.
The ObamaCare you support will get rid of any choice regarding coverage whatsoever.
I think that health care should be handled the way that education is handled. There is public education available to all. There are also private schools for those who prefer private education and can afford to pay for it. Similarly, public health care should be available to all. Yet, private health care / health insurance would still be available for those who prefer it to the public system and can afford to pay for allegedly better care.
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