American using Britain’s NHS (2015)

Re:American using Britain’s NHS (2015) by Scoundreller on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:12PM (#16510242)

> That's $450k/yr, treatment required for life. I suspect that many American insurance companies wouldn't fund that.

The question is, how did NICE arrive at the decision to fund it when it doesn't meet their CBA threshold?

Isn't the whole point of a CBA threshold to say: "We should defund really expensive treatments so we can pay for more cheaper treatments and improve aggregate outcomes per GBP"?

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Re:American using Britain’s NHS (2015) by Mvandenbergh on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:41PM (#16510432)

This is true, over the last decade they've made the process more complicated. Partially imo to obfuscate the fact that they are now required to fund things for political reasons that don't plausibly pass their CBA threshold.

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