Secukinumab gets one step closer to approval in Europe for treating psoriasis.

[Fred]

It's not always a choice people have to vote with their feet in the UK you take what you are offered ..... Yes you can protest and ask for something else.... But if it's to expensive for the health service or in other countries insurance companies .. The drug won't be prescribed except in exceptional circumstances.... I think the reason I'm hung up on the cost of treatments is not because mine is expensive because it's not .... It's because I have seen several cases on here where treatments have been denied members purely on the grounds of cost..... And I feel that is so wrong ..... Not many can afford to pay full price for their treatment and even with help from the manufacturers they still have to find a fair amount of money .... Which isn't always available
Jim falls off soap box with red face

Fred gets back on his soap box and although we are taking this thread off topic.

Ladies and Gentlemen, you all have a choice. Yes I appreciate in some countries it may come down to what you can afford, but what I know of it in most countries there is some form of subsidised or free treatment. If there is not then I do genuinely feel sorry for those people, but that is life and that is our lot so to speak. We can not change the world or politics when it comes to medical treatment, and who are we to even say that a country is wrong to not allow a treatment. At the end of the day it's up to that country and it's voters that decide.

So it brings me back to "Vote with your feet" if you don't like the way it is then either don't use it or make your voice heard and push your government to negotiate a lower price.

Jim you live in the UK and you have a vote, all treatment that is available under your governments health system is available for all. So to say not many can afford to pay, does not apply in your case. You pay your NHS charges and get your medication, why should you care how much it costs.

Fred thinks he should now step off his soap box, as this could end up becoming a heated debate about the health care of individual countries where as in fact the thread is about a new treatment for psoriasis.

Over to you Jim or anyone else, I promise not to respond.

Apart from I may have spelt heard as in to hear wrong, or even here................... Oh I don't know.

I do like a good debate though.

I'm done.