Re: MRI on Good Morning Amerrica

In article <j8d7v154ebl2f8386ciu76494hvp47ancu@xxxxxxx>,
Port@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Did anyone else see the segment on Good Morning America this morning
about the MRI scanner? It was a machine still in the experimental
stages that took some incredible images of blood vessels from head to
toe. They said it'd be available to us mere mortals in about 5 years
at $2000 per scan.

Did not see it but sounds cheap. I don't really want to know the
state of my plumbing but that's me a CABG guy. I guess a routine scan
at age forty could give folks the idea that health is not only a
birthright but a challenge to deal with in a creative manner. A nice
way of suggesting work at it.

Found this

Major Sniping by Bill

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/business/15drug.html

A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can't Pay

By ALEX BERENSON
Published: February 15, 2006
Doctors are excited about the prospect of Avastin, a drug already widely
used for colon cancer, as a crucial new treatment for breast and lung
cancer, too. But doctors are cringing at the price the maker, Genentech,
plans to charge for it: about $100,000 a year.That price, about double
the current level as a colon cancer treatment, would raise Avastin to an
annual cost typically found only for medicines used to treat rare
diseases that affect small numbers of patients. But Avastin, already a
billion-dollar drug, has a potential patient pool of hundreds of
thousands of people -- which is why analysts predict its United States
sales could grow nearly sevenfold to $7 billion by 2009.
Doctors, though, warn that some cancer patients are already being priced
out of the Avastin market. Even some patients with insurance are
thinking hard before agreeing to treatment, doctors say, because
out-of-pocket co-payments for the drug could easily run $10,000 to
$20,000 a year.

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