[grk]

This sounds extremely weird when you read it in Europe.

[icebraining]

We in Europe have the same choices to face. For example,

" In June, Nice said the £48,000 per year price tag of the drug, which could benefit 450 women a year, could not be justified."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11785840/NICE-refuse...

[darawk]

You know that in Europe you don't automatically get any lifesaving treatment that exists, right?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/20/drug-giants-...

http://jme.bmj.com/content/27/3/179

[duncanawoods]

Doesn't to me. Deploying limited resources effectively is critical to all care-giving. There is no "costs don't matter" in Europe.

The US aspect that is weird is when the discussion is not really about maximising value, its actually about maximising profits.

[holenda]

No it does not. There are treatments that are deemed to expensive and will not be provided. Typically it will be a trade off between how effective the treatment is and how expensive it is. European healtcare systems does not have infinite money.