Pharmac wants to know:
- Should young people be able to jump queues for costly drugs at the expense of older people who’ve already had a long life?
- Are poor people more deserving of help than rich people”?
The proposals are among a raft of provocative questions being asked by Pharmac as it conducts a consultation exercise about the criteria it uses when deciding how to spend its budget, which last year was $783 million.
Other questions being posed are:
- Should the underprivileged groups such as Maori and Pasifika get priority access to drugs?
- Should it take into account the ability of parents of sick children to return to work?
- Should it assess the future earning potential of children?
- Should it have different priorities for providing treatment of conditions considered “preventable”, compared to those that are genetically based?
Source
- Stuff.co.nz
- Image: Hacklive.ru
