6%, or almost double Britain's expenditure" (Klein 2005). However, this frugality means that bypass surgery, dialysis, and medications in general are much more rarely prescribed in the U.S. than in the UK. While there is frequent criticism that the U.S. is overmedicated as a society, the opposite is likely true in the UK. In other words, is unlikely that people are so much healthier in England vs. The U.S. To justify certain statistical disparities in care: the rate for coronary bypass surgery in the UK is 20% less than it is in the U.S.
To address the problems of under-medication, recently there has been a proposal to allow drug companies in the UK with "innovative" medicines to bypass the current screening process for cost-effectiveness, as a way of expanding care. The companies could sell the drugs to the NHS at a higher price than is customary "under a fast-track procedure to be proposed next week by the Office for Life Sciences (OLS)" (Bosley 2009). The NHS, because of cost as well as safety concerns, is highly reluctant to approve new drugs and grant them coverage. The British system blocks sales of expensive drugs to the NHS that it deems to be only of limited benefit, but patients with chronic and rare diseases have protested this policy -- as has the pharmaceutical industry. Patient advocates argue that the current method of drug approval and cost scale of the NHS denies patients life-saving drugs and makes pharmaceutical companies reluctant to launch new drugs in the UK because 25% of the global market is influenced by the UK price, and the UK market is so low-cost (Bosely 2009).
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (known ironically as 'Nice' in the UK) currently assesses every new drug before it enters the NHS system....
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