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fullofbeans · 02-02-2008, 04:38 AM

Dear Uthcibk

NHS is in the UK and is the worse free healthcare in Europe!!!!!!! (by the way all Eu countries have free healthcare, before you ask). They come behing poland on their Breast cancer survival rate!

So please be fair to free healthcare in general and do not look at the worst one in western Europe. I know for certain that Avastin is free in France and Germany and I expect in most of the other western Eu.

If you do that (look at NHS as an example) then I should look at only your dodgy insurers and conclude that it is awful even if you are lucky enough to be insured..

Funnily enough tho the NHS is the only system in the world where anyone can just come and be treated even if they are not resident (apparently get many people who come simply to be treated for Aids for a while prior to change in plane policy they had many of you guys coming to give birth etc..They even have charities specialised in simply bringing people over for treatments), strange how they can be so generous on one hand and then tell people living in the UK that they should die because they are getting too expensive..

02-02-2008, 04:38 AM	#5
fullofbeans Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 617	Dear Uthcibk NHS is in the UK and is the worse free healthcare in Europe!!!!!!! (by the way all Eu countries have free healthcare, before you ask). They come behing poland on their Breast cancer survival rate! So please be fair to free healthcare in general and do not look at the worst one in western Europe. I know for certain that Avastin is free in France and Germany and I expect in most of the other western Eu. If you do that (look at NHS as an example) then I should look at only your dodgy insurers and conclude that it is awful even if you are lucky enough to be insured.. Funnily enough tho the NHS is the only system in the world where anyone can just come and be treated even if they are not resident (apparently get many people who come simply to be treated for Aids for a while prior to change in plane policy they had many of you guys coming to give birth etc..They even have charities specialised in simply bringing people over for treatments), strange how they can be so generous on one hand and then tell people living in the UK that they should die because they are getting too expensive.. __________________ 35 y/o June 06: BC stage I Grade 3; ER/PR neg Her-2+++; lumpectomies Aug 06: Stage IV liver mets: 6 tumours July 06 to Jan 07: 2FEC+6Taxotere; 3*TACE; LITT March 07- Sept 07: Vaccination trial (phase 2, peptide based) at the UW (Seattle). Herceptin since 2006 NED til Oct 09 Recurrence Oct 2009: to internal mammary gland since October 2009 missed on Oct and March 2010 scan.. palpable nodes in May 2010 when I realised.. Nov 2011:7 mets to lungs progressing fast failed hercp/tykerb/xeloda combo.. superior vena cava blocked: stent but face remains puffy April 2012: Teresa Trial, randomised to TDM1 Nov 2012 progressing on TDM1 Dec 2012 blockage of my airways by tumours, obliteration of these blocking tumours breathing better but hoping for more- at mo too many tumours to count in the lungs and nodes. Dec 2012 Starting new trial S-222611 phase 1b dual egfr her2+ inhibitor. 'Under no circumstances should you lose hope..' Dalai Lama