Dr. Wet's First Strike Against Women's Health

Good news, ladies!  You better hope you never get a lump in either of two wrong places, because if you do, Donald Berwick (a.k.a. Lawnmower Man) just gave you a hail and hearty F.U.:

Alliance Appeal to FDA and Key Lawmakers on Avastin Issue

Patient Access and the Impact on Development of New Treatments at the Heart of Komen for the Cure’s Concerns

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA) today urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to continue to allow the use of the drug bevacizumab, commonly known as Avastin, for metastatic breast cancer patients, noting that it is effective for some patients and warning of a chilling effect on new drug development if approval is withdrawn…

…In a joint letter sent to the FDA and key Congressional lawmakers Thursday, Komen for the Cure and the OCNA wrote, “We are particularly concerned about patients who are presently receiving bevacizumab and the message that this decision sends about drug development for women with advanced breast cancer.”

…According to Komen, the decision to use Avastin should be made between a woman and her doctor after a thoughtful conversation that carefully considers the drug’s benefits and risks. Komen does not want to see access limited by Medicare and Medicaid.

A medical decision being made between doctor and patient?  Sheesh, where does Komen think they are, the horse & buggy age?  Private health care is SO twentieth century.  Ever since Godbama descended from on high with the stone tablets ("Take two of these....I'll be on the back nine.") of health care and bequethed them to his prophet Berwickmiah, patients and doctors have been relieved of that terrible burden that they, after all, were far too stupid to make for themselves.  How else is the national debt Red Barry inherited from Bushitler to be reduced but on the boobs of American women?

This was picked up on Saturday.  Behold the raw delegated POWER of Dr. Wet in not even having to bully the Food & Drug Administration to fall into line within forty-eight hours:

Federal regulators are considering taking the highly unusual step of rescinding approval of a drug that patients with advanced breast cancer turn to as a last-ditch hope.

The debate over Avastin, prescribed to about 17,500 women with breast cancer a year, has become entangled in the politically explosive struggle over medical spending and effectiveness that flared during the battle over health-care reform: How should the government balance protecting patients and controlling costs without restricting access to cutting-edge, and often costly, treatments? …

The FDA is not supposed to consider costs in its decisions, but if the agency rescinds approval, insurers are likely to stop paying for treatment.

“It’s hard to talk about Avastin without talking about costs,” said Eric P. Winer, director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. “For better or worse, Avastin has become in many ways the poster child of high-priced anti-cancer drugs.”

Well, I guess the FDA isn't gonna be cost-blind anymore, huh?

You know what the inevitable next question is: Why do Barack and Berwick hate women?:

“I’m very upset,” said Leslie Twohig, 48, of Lothian, Maryland, who has been taking Avastin for eight months and credits the drug with helping her survive. “How long will I be able to stay on Avastin? Are they going to take it away? I know it’s working for me. Right now I am able to enjoy my life. Every morning I wake up and wonder how long it’s going to go on.”

“I am very concerned about people who are receiving the drug and may feel threatened that they may not be able to receive it,” said the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Winer, who is also chief scientific officer for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer patient advocacy group. “This is not a worthless drug by any means. There is almost certainly a group of women who get a big benefit. “

Yes, Leslie, they are going to take your Avastin away, and you are going to die a horrible, lingering, painful, wasting death.  Know why?  Let Ace lay it on you:

But these are Little People, Little People. Sometimes they will have to be sacrificed for the greater good.

But you know who will have access to Avastin and Provenge and similarly expensive and therefore outlawed drugs?

You know who.

The rules are different for the ruling class. Some lives are simply too precious to sacrifice for a broader principle.

There are people who count, and then there are people who count only as regards their presence in great numbers -- i.e., statistics.

You are a statistic. Know your place.

In short, Leslie, Michelle Obama's boobs are more important than yours.  Ditto Nancy Pelosi's.  And Barbara Boxer's.  And Hillary Clinton's.  And Patty Murray's, and Dianne Feinstein's, and Kathleen Sebelius', and on and on and on.

They are the elite.  Born to rule.  Smarter than you.  You must die that they (and their boobs) can live.  And rule.

And so that Michelle's nutless husband will have something to hide behind from the political fallout:

This is criminal. To avoid a difficult political debate - and the honest confession that "bending the curve" of Medicare costs to free up money for ObamaCare is going to require a lesser standard of treatment - the FDA is killing a safe and effective drug and thereby outlawing for anyone, including those who can be helped by this drug and no other, and who are paying for the drug with their own private insurance or own out-of-pocket money.

In other words: He is doing exactly what he vowed he would not. He is "equalizing" health access not by bringing up care for those who have little, but by reducing care by full might of federal legal power for those who have "too much."

Hey, if spreading the wealth is such a great idea, spreading the life must be even better, right?  Besides, I'm sure statistics like Leslie Twohig won't mind overmuch the honor of offering their small lives in service to fellow creatures who have done as much "good" as Barack and Berwick.

Right?

Oh, and guys?  Don't feel left out - they hate our guts (and crotches), too.