Comment by MauroIksem
3 years ago
It's cheaper than other chemos..my mom has breast cancer and her chemo according to insurance cost 65k per infusion every 3 weeks.
3 years ago
It's cheaper than other chemos..my mom has breast cancer and her chemo according to insurance cost 65k per infusion every 3 weeks.
That's *insane*. Here in Scotland each dose costs the NHS at most a couple of hundred quid, plus about that again to administer. None of that is paid by the patient.
It is crazy what the incentives do in the US.
It is a bit like car insurance here, which keeps rising because insurance companies keep edging the cost of a claim upwards (courtesy cars at extortionate rates, repair, ...) because there's no insentive to keep costs down or not profiteer.
With the NHS's buying power for drugs, they can get a little bit nearer a sensible margin from the supplier rather than the insane US costs underwritten by inflationary insurance.