Here we go again. Death Panels are back not that they were ever here. This is just another right wing scare tactic and frankly I'm tired of it. It is no way to start the day. The headlines scream:
Berwick's First Strike: Susan G. Komen Foundation and Ovarian Cancer Alliance Decry First-Ever Medicare Denials of FDA-Approved Cancer Drugs
but the article doesn't say that at all. An ovarian cancer treatment drug is being worked through the Medicare system with the usual steps to determine payment and appropriateness. The article links it as the death panel thing coming out of Obamacare.
I wish that people wouldn't resort to lies to try and win arguments or move the populace in one direction or another. If you have to lie to win an argument then you don't have one.
This article and scare tactic is followed up with more crap in the WSJ. Avastin's own site (http://www.avastin.com/) states:
Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC)
Avastin in combination with paclitaxel, a type of chemotherapy, is approved for treating patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC) who have not yet received chemotherapy for their advanced disease. The effectiveness of Avastin in HER2-negative MBC is based on an improvement in how long your tumor remains controlled. Currently, there are no data available showing that Avastin improves disease-related symptoms or survival in HER2-negative MBC. Avastin is not approved for people who have received prior anthracycline and taxane (chemotherapy) for their HER2-negative MBC.
But we are back to death panels and just out and out lying. I'm mad as hell and I just can't take it any more.
Berwick's First Strike: Susan G. Komen Foundation and Ovarian Cancer Alliance Decry First-Ever Medicare Denials of FDA-Approved Cancer Drugs
but the article doesn't say that at all. An ovarian cancer treatment drug is being worked through the Medicare system with the usual steps to determine payment and appropriateness. The article links it as the death panel thing coming out of Obamacare.
I wish that people wouldn't resort to lies to try and win arguments or move the populace in one direction or another. If you have to lie to win an argument then you don't have one.
This article and scare tactic is followed up with more crap in the WSJ. Avastin's own site (http://www.avastin.com/) states:
Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC)
Avastin in combination with paclitaxel, a type of chemotherapy, is approved for treating patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC) who have not yet received chemotherapy for their advanced disease. The effectiveness of Avastin in HER2-negative MBC is based on an improvement in how long your tumor remains controlled. Currently, there are no data available showing that Avastin improves disease-related symptoms or survival in HER2-negative MBC. Avastin is not approved for people who have received prior anthracycline and taxane (chemotherapy) for their HER2-negative MBC.
But we are back to death panels and just out and out lying. I'm mad as hell and I just can't take it any more.