The cancer drugs fund is an absolute travesty, and a direct transfer of wealth from the UK taxpayer to the pharmaceutical industry. The lobbyist who devised th

The cancer drugs fund is an absolute travesty, and a direct transfer of wealth from the UK taxpayer to the pharmaceutical industry. The lobbyist who devised the value proposition to Cameron's government must be very proud of him/herself. The only reason the public clamours for these drugs is because opportunity cost of treatment is very hard to distill into a newspaper headline. The cancer drugs fund, at base principles, implies that cancer patients lives are more valuable than the rest of the public.