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Drug Shortages Forcing Hard Decisions on Rationing Treatments
Such shortages are the new normal in American medicine. But the rationing that results has been largely hidden from patients and the public.
In recent years , shortages of all sorts of drugs — anesthetics, painkillers, antibiotics, cancer treatments — have become the new normal in American medicine. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists currently lists inadequate supplies of more than 150 drugs and therapeutics, for reasons ranging from manufacturing problems to federal safety crackdowns to drugmakers abandoning low-profit products.
(Don'tcha love how they insert the "federal safety crackdowns" (FDA) in the middle there? )
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...decisions about conserving, substituting and allocating scarce drugs typically are made by small groups of doctors and pharmacists (read: death panels); Dr. Kodish’s ethics committee is not involved.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us...reatments.html
Drug Shortages Forcing Hard Decisions on Rationing Treatments
Such shortages are the new normal in American medicine. But the rationing that results has been largely hidden from patients and the public.
In recent years , shortages of all sorts of drugs — anesthetics, painkillers, antibiotics, cancer treatments — have become the new normal in American medicine. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists currently lists inadequate supplies of more than 150 drugs and therapeutics, for reasons ranging from manufacturing problems to federal safety crackdowns to drugmakers abandoning low-profit products.
(Don'tcha love how they insert the "federal safety crackdowns" (FDA) in the middle there? )
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...decisions about conserving, substituting and allocating scarce drugs typically are made by small groups of doctors and pharmacists (read: death panels); Dr. Kodish’s ethics committee is not involved.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us...reatments.html
Funny how this wasn't a problem just 8 short years ago, isn't it? Thanks Obamacare.
(Usual attempts at denial, diversion, deflection, etc. in ....3....2....1....)