Do these people live in a different world

Only last Monday NICE our NHS rationing watchdog ruled that bowel cancer patients could not have access to the drug Avastin on the National Health Service because the cost of around £21,000 per patient was deemed too high.
It says it is not worth the cost to prescribe them to critically ill patients.
What I cannot understand is why do these top consultant oncologists insist on calling it a miracle drug that that they say can prolong the life of some patients for years? If they are not letting anyone have them.
Are these heartless dictators at NICE so stupid not to realise that to tell people with this cancer that if they took this drug they could live a lot longer but then to tell them they can’t have it, it’s to expensive..
And then they rub salt into the wound by splashing out on plasma screen televisions in its offices, also they are hiring 160 new staff and spending £500,000 refurbishing its offices, and that’s right after blocking this cancer drug.
What planet do they live on, I’m sure it’s not the same as us.

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