Are you excited about the US having an agency like the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence?

Question by I do not like them, Sam I am.: Are you excited about the US having an agency like the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence?
In Britain, they have the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence that dictates what treatments a patient can receive and it is all based on the cost of the treatment.

Are you excited about a government agency dictating your health and your life depending on how much it may cost?

Life prolonging cancer drugs to be banned because they cost too much
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1159506/Life-prolonging-cancer-drugs-banned-cost-much.html

NHS watchdog’s restriction of osteoporosis drug ‘unlawful’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/19/osteoporosis-nhs-nice-protelos

Patients in many parts of Britain are being denied effective and sometimes life-saving treatments because of funding shortages in the National Health Service by NICE.
Doctors say that diabetes, arthritis and Alzheimer’s patients are suffering because they are being refused drugs or treatment programmes approved by the National Institute for Curbing Expenditure (NICE).
http://www.healthdirect.co.uk/2008/10/drugs-denied-to-sick-against-rules-of.html

The body assessing new therapies and drugs for the NHS could be approving too many treatments, a report has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6962648.stm
The NICE and the NIH in the states are two COMPLETELY different things.

Please read up. You obviously do not know what you are talking about.

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