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NICE Official: US opposition to NICE Euthanasia Program is "Rather Primitive Debate"

September 16, 2009 (LPAC)—Today's "Health" supplement of the Financial Times, with the cover picture being a world map formed by drips of blood, says it all: in an article "Nice approach", Tsung-Mei Cheng, a member of the Nazi-like NICE International's advisory group, brushes asides all critique and proudly concludes that the "UK's Nice has become the world leader in this new approach to health policy, making technology assessment one of the UK's leading exports."

After going to the ritual demonstration how "massive" spending on health "occurs purely on blind faith in the efficacy of the products purchased", Cheng says that with NICEm "the UK can claim to have become the intellectual leader in this newly emerging field."

In a clear response to the international outcry against this T4 Nazi health revival organized by the LaRouche forces, Cheng acknowledges that "However, the institute has generated a significant amount of controversy in the UK and, more recently, in the US."

"Most controversial in cost-effectiveness analysis for health care" is its reliance on the metric 'Quality Adjusted Life Years' (QALY). Critics of Nice accuse the organisation of setting its upper threshold of coverage too low it is currently set at 30,000 pounds per QALY, which is not enough to cover many end-of-life drugs. Unsurprisingly, the medical technology industry and its supporters view this level as a barrier to innovation; patients and their doctors simply see it as heartless. In fact, the threshold level is a political judgment that must be decided by the government and the tax-paying public. The higher the threshold, the higher the NHS spending and the equivalent taxes to be paid."

"The US has long prided itself as being at the forefront in medical technology and organisational innovation in health-care. Yet it remains locked in a rather primitive debate over whether or not technology assessment, along with other healthcare reforms, will lead to Nazi-style euthanasia. As Americans have been so preoccupied, the UK's NICE has quietly become the world leader in this new approach to health policy, making technological assessment one of the UK's leading exports."

Cheng also details NICE was praised by the WHO as a "world leader". Today, NICE not only is a model for China but cooperates directly with Germany, Jordan, Colombia, Turkey, Ghana, Thailand, Estonia and Russia while negotiating cooperation with Latin America, the Middle East, central Asia and eastern Europe.


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