https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/latest-news/happy-...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/i-would-not-...

> As the Obama administration sought to reform the US healthcare system in 2009, the US Investor’s Business Daily argued that Stephen Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless”.

> It was duly pointed out that Hawking was not only born and educated in England, but received more care than most from the nation’s health service. “I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” Hawking told the Guardian at the time. “I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”

This sort of thing goes both ways

And the American system that is systematically bankrupting sick people for profit is a damn sight less perfect than the European authorities issues.

Yes, it goes both ways, but it goes much further one way over the other.

That's fair.

For gene therapy, I was referring to Zolgensma, which was delayed substantially in Europe and forced many to seek treatment in America. The delay was mainly due to cost savings, and the delay was clinically meaningful (since treatment is time sensitive).

That's available too.

> delayed substantially in Europe

In the meantime, between when FDA approved v NHS, children became debilitated.

Anyway. At least with the NHS you won't be expected to pay the millions per dose fees, via insurance or other means.

A recent example is health system paying for Zolgensma, the most expensive medication in the world, leading to millions of expense per year[1][2] on this medication alone for a very small amount of babies.

[1] https://tvi24.iol.pt/sociedade/saude/estado-gastou-4-1-milho...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-eyes-arrival-of-world...

You have a source for that claim? Two weeks in the nicu is not that long tbh.