Comments on: Keep your government hands off my Medicare! http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/06/keep-your-government-hands-off-my-medicare/ Health News, Views & Analysis---Helping You Take Charge of Your Health Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kitty http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/06/keep-your-government-hands-off-my-medicare/#comment-1275 kitty Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:50:14 +0000 http://healthspectator.com/?p=2243#comment-1275 This lack of comprehension makes me so sad This lack of comprehension makes me so sad

]]> By: Rick Ungar http://healthspectator.com/2009/09/06/keep-your-government-hands-off-my-medicare/#comment-1320 Rick Ungar Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:33:59 +0000 http://healthspectator.com/?p=2243#comment-1320 <p>What Bartiromo is not saying is that Erbitux has been approved for use in every European country other than the UK along with Canada. It is an effective drug with good results.</p> <p>Of course, the fact that a particular drug has not been approved for use in any country has no bearing whatsoever on the public option in the US. </p> <p> Using this as an argument reveals how Bartiromo, and many other commentators, completely fail to understand how a public insurance option would work just as she fails to understand the right private insurers have in denying expensive drug choices.</p> What Bartiromo is not saying is that Erbitux has been approved for use in every European country other than the UK along with Canada. It is an effective drug with good results.

Of course, the fact that a particular drug has not been approved for use in any country has no bearing whatsoever on the public option in the US.

Using this as an argument reveals how Bartiromo, and many other commentators, completely fail to understand how a public insurance option would work just as she fails to understand the right private insurers have in denying expensive drug choices.

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