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The NHS price cap on drugs here in the UK is somewhere in the low tens of thousands per QALY. This does drive down drug costs, but also means that some treatmen
by makomk 7y ago
The NHS price cap on drugs here in the UK is somewhere in the low tens of thousands per QALY. This does drive down drug costs, but also means that some treatments just aren't available.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWhich is reasonable IMHO as every health system has some form of constraint on what is available. None gets a blank cheque.
- jdietrich 7y ago>This does drive down drug costs, but also means that some treatments just aren't available. If you aren't rejecting some treatments, you aren't controlling healthcare costs. A drug or device must be safe and effective to gain market authorisation, but the threshold of efficacy is statistical significance rather than clinical significance. Many drugs and devices on the market are almost useless - not actually useless, but very nearly so. The usual examples of controlling care costs are stupendously expensive novel treatments for rare and serious diseases, but an equally serious problem is marginally effective or ineffective treatments for common complaints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_treatments_blacklist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_treatments_blacklist