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Originally Posted by GlennD
Would a patient in this hypothetical situation in the UK receive the care at the cost of $10K a day? It's not "life SAVING", but clearly a decision has to be made quickly or the care will be too late to even prolong life for that month.
I think in the US (and I may be wrong, but....) most health insurance would pay for this assuming we're talking about accepted, non-experimental treatments. An insurance company tends not to question the necessity case-by-case, they decide whether particular procedures are covered on a more general basis. An HMO on the other hand, would probably opt not to provide this type of expensive care with no hope of a life-saving outcome.
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The NHS does provide life-extending drugs, yes, but as (I think Sparrow) mentioned earlier, there is a governing body called "NICE" (the "National Institute for Clinical Excellence") which decides which drugs the NHS should prescribe and which not. It's the ultra-expensive life-extending drugs which are always the contraversial ones.