Slimebeast said:
It's not primarily me. The health system at the top views healthcare and cost-benefit this way. I was taught that in Sweden, very roughly speaking, each year of prolonged life expectancy for one patient is worth perhaps $200,000 in healthcare costs. It's a higher number when it comes to young people and a bit less with the elderly. So if there's a brand new cancer drug that costs say $300,000 for one treatment, but on average only extends 6 months of a patients remaining lifetime, that drug most likely won't be approved in Sweden. But we who are personnel on the ground are not made aware about costs very much at all, because it's important that we don't become fixated with costs, and it's important that we treat everyone equally. There's a delicate balance. But certainly most doctors are aware of different costs of medicines, blood samples, different xrays etc. |
Sadly medicines cost that much, i understand that investors need their shares and research need to be payed but there should be better ways to make certain medicines cheaper, productioncosts are mostly cheap but everything after that need to have an enormous chunk of profit for certain medicines. (i believe in goverment intervention to force the prices of medicines down)
Good that healthcare exists to take a bunch of those costs away for patients but healthcare is also abused to maximize the original costs,the healthsystem at the top is simply pure capitalism and i do not agree with it at that extent but ofcourse the Europe systems do still belong to the better ones.
