FDA Set To Cut Off 17,000 Women Annually From Lifesaving Drug, Avastin

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This is extremely unfortunate.  It is unfortunate because it did not have to happen.  Did we not shout from the rooftops a year ago that this would happen?  Did we not warn the country about Obamacare, government run death panels, David Blumenthal, Ezekiel Emanuel,  Sebelius, the USPSTF, comparative effectiveness and breast cancer screening?

GULAG BOUND

“Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to take up the case of Avastin, a cancer drug that successfully treats some 17,000 women annually. With a coming December 17 decision, the FDA seems poised to take this drug away from these patients quite despite the fact that their doctors find the drug effective.

The most dangerous period of time in Washington D.C. is that time we call the lame duck session (I call it the zombie congress; dead men walking). It is that time when those elected officials that are about to be ingloriously shipped off home for the last time due to losing election results make a mad scramble to grab for as much as they can get.

In the case of regulatory agencies like the FDA the lame duck session is not treated in exactly the same manner, but it is sure that when congress is about to have its majority party change over with the president’s party on the losing side of the switch, regulatory agencies often try to push through favored policies before the new congress is seated and before that new congress is in a position to put any pressure on those agencies to prevent them from pushing the president’s agenda.

We are currently seeing this lame duck scramble happening in Obama’s regulatory agencies. The FCC was pushing its ruinous Net Neutrality ideas, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been changing labor rules to favor unions, and the FDA is about to eliminate Avastin putting at risk the lives and cancer treatment regimens of thousands of women suffering from metastatic breast cancer.….”

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A year ago, patriots were desperately trying to inform the masses about the downside of Obamacare, including the death panels, the real meaning of Obama’s red and blue pill, its effect on the disabled and the terminally ill.

One of my biggest debates with those in my community who voted for Barack Obama was they were ignorant enough to pin their lives and their hopes on Obamacare.  I effortlessly tried to warn many that they would be the among the first hit and hit the hardest by the negative effects of Obamacare.

Most of those I spoke to could not move past the thought of  FREE HEALTHCARE.  I pointed out often that so-called FREE HEALTHCARE does not mean QUALITY HEALTHCARE.  They did not get it.

Such a decision by the FDA can come to no good; and to think this is only the beginning.

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Doctors Engaged In ‘Slow Euthanasia’ For Patients With Terminal Illnesses

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Elderly, End of life, Euthanasia, healthcare rationing, Terminally ill, UK, universal healthcare

As the NHS defends its end of life care treatments or lack thereof, they will not accept that starving, denying a patient hydration and heavily sedating a patient until they finally die is murder.  I do not consider this procedure a mercy killing aka euthanasia, but then again, neither does the NHS.

There are concerns that this procedure, i.e., the denial of food and water along with prolonged heavy sedation masks a patient’s vital signs.  Doctors have complained that if there is a chance that said patient is not really near death, this cost-effective procedure as dictated by the NHS will disguise that prognosis.

One acknowledges that there are those who have suffered so long that they may in fact welcome death.  On the other hand, there are those who would embrace life for as long as they can.  However, we are talking about universal healthcare, which is solely based on cost effectiveness.  This rationing treatment procedure is rendered to patients for no other purpose than to cut costs.  Hence, the NHS decides when enough is enough and doctors as required by NHS guidelines follow through. 

That is why the NHS does not cannot label this treatment or lack thereof euthanasia.  It is murder and no matter how hard the NHS works to cover its rear by justifying said procedure, nothing will change that fact.

Take note America.

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“Patients with terminal illness are being heavily sedated by doctors before their deaths in a form of ‘slow euthanasia’, research suggests.

A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that almost one in five had administered infusions of drugs to keep patients unconscious for hours or days at a time.

In appropriate doses, sedatives and strong painkillers are considered a valuable way of easing the pain and anxiety of patients who are dying with conditions such as cancer.

But 18.7 per cent of British doctors polled said they used drugs to invoke ‘continuous deep sedation’ in a dying patient, a practice which in other countries is seen as an alternative to legalised euthanasia.

GPs and hospital doctors who are not palliative care specialists were more likely to report using high doses of sedatives or painkillers to keep patients asleep, leading to calls for all doctors to have mandatory training in the care of dying patients.

Guidelines for care at the end of life emphasise that doctors should always act in a patient’s best interests and act within the law, which prohibits euthanasia or actively helping someone to die.

The study, published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, also found that of the sample of 2,786 doctors, those who strongly supported the legalisation of assisted suicide were nearly 40 per cent more likely to employ continued deep sedation than the average.

By contrast, doctors who reported strong religious beliefs or who actively opposed changing the law were less likely to report sedating patients before death.

In most cases sedation was used for between one and seven days or less than 24 hours. But in a significant minority of patients — 8 per cent — doctors reported sedating patients for more than a week before they died.

Clive Seale, a professor of medical sociology who led the study at Queen Mary, University of London, said that deliberately keeping patients unconscious until death was controversial, with some physicians viewing it as a form of ‘slow euthanasia’.

‘Sedation in itself not directly kill a patient, but it does put them to sleep and is associated with other things such as the withdrawal of fluids and ventilation,’ he added.

‘In this country it can be seen as a form of treatment to relieve intractable suffering but in the Netherlands and Belgium, doctors also see it as an easier alternative to legalised euthanasia.”