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I doubt I would take it anyway. One report was for $ 50,000 per year and another was for almost $ 5000 each dose and you have to take it every 3 or 4 months.

Many drugs are bad for you . Wife spent 10 days in the hospital last year because she took a drug for bowl problems. The drug drove her out of her head. The doctor did not mention anything about that. I noticed her acting funny and looked up the drug and sure enough going nuts was one major side effect.

You know why it's going to be so pricey? Because almost everyone taking it will be on public insurance, e.g. Medicare. The taxpayer is buying it for them.

That kind of craziness should have been spelled out on that lengthy information sheet that comes with each prescription. You really need to sit down and study that thing these days.

The claim is that it slows down the progression of the dementia by about 30%. That's worth having.

The National Health Service in the UK does cost-benefit analysis on that kind of drug. If Medicare in the US doesn't if will be because Big Pharma has lobbied against it.

And the doctor should have done that too - and spelled out the risks. Sadly, that takes time, and thus costs money.

No, it's not the NHS. It's NICE (

). You'd be hard-pressed to find it in the plethora of information on their webpages that it's their decision whether or not a new drug is made available on the NHS. You'd think it would be here: But the detail is here:

NICE have got it wrong on quite a few occasions and have had to reverse their recommendation that "X" should not be available on the NHS.

Well that's just it, it doesn't.

"Ten of the 11 panelists [FDA scientific advisory panel] found that there was not enough evidence to show it could slow cognitive decline. The 11th voted “uncertain.”"

Member of FDA’s expert panel resigns over controversial Alzheimer’s therapy approval

This is kinda unprecedented. “This was the first time that nobody voted for approval of this drug — nobody — and they went against that.”

It is a political override of scientific consensus.

Hey SL0WMAN, then Lyin' Uncle Joe should be on it. Thirty percent? WOW! Uncle Joe MIGHT be able to remember Trump's name in a year or two!

If only the rest of us could forget it. Sadly, Flyguy seems to demented enough to believe every one of Trump's lies, and not demented enough to forget them.

Just for the record, there is no evidence that suggests that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia, and Trump's election campaign claims that he is happened to be particularly unconvincing election propaganda, aimed at idiots like Flyguy, who is sea-green incorrupible when it comes to dementia - it s a miracle that he can still type.

That is such a strange twist of logic. Everyone who works or who was supported by their spouse pays into the medicare system. Then when they want to use the insurance you decry that as an abuse.

A friend has macular degeneration. There are two drugs that can be taken for this. Neither will restore his sight, but they can help to prevent further damage. They are not cheap, but one is cheaper than the other. The name brand drug is thousands per dose which is every five weeks, one in each eye. The other is the same dose, but off label and about a fifth the price with the same apparent effectiveness. My friend chose the less expensive drug in spite of the fact that he has medicare as well as supplemental insurance and would only be paying 20% of 20% or 4%.

I only wish he could have taken the drug for both eyes before the second one went. Then he would still be able to read and not requiring equipment that the government partly paid for to have things read to him. He is an avid gun fan, especially military gear, but doesn't have guns any more because of where he lives. He does have a Revolutionary war officer's uniform in excellent condition and any number of other very nice things. He actively researches the items he has and is writing a paper on canteens. Obviously he needs a lot of help and it is slow going. For want of the shot, the eye was lost...

I've never understood why, when a drug can cause sever reactions, they give it full strength rather than giving a very small dose the first time and checking for a reaction before the major dose.