First the National (Un)Health Service said if you wanted a drug that it wasn’t willing to provide–too expensive for the purpose of saving your miserable life!–and decided to buy it yourself, then you would lose ALL medical care under the NHS. That is, if you wanted a potentially life-saving treatment, you might have to bankrupt your family to pay for the rest of your treatment. Just love those bureaucrats. How I want that kind of treatment here, but I digress.
Under fire from just about everyone, NHS reversed itself. Now you can buy the drugs and continue your treatment under NHS. But what about families that did ruin themselves financially under the old rules? Reports the Daily Mail:
The health service is set to face a string of compensation claims from cancer patients after its U-turn on top-up payments. Continue reading . . .
