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Old 11-19-2010, 08:49 AM
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Default An example of why health care costs are going up
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http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/hea...le+Feedfetcher

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The vote by a 14-member panel of outside experts amounts to a recommendation that Medicare pay for Provenge, which costs $93,000 per patient and extends life an average of four months
Do you think a private insurance company would cover this?

Do you think Medicare should cover this?

Would you trade paying for glasses for a thousand people so one person could get four more months of life (and consider the quality of those four months)?

I mean, if this drug CURED prostate cancer, I think you'd have a decent argument for it.