North Vancouver man denied life-saving drug - British Columbia - CBC News
A 22-year-old North Vancouver man has said he is facing a death sentence because B.C. will not fund the only medical treatment that could save him. Garrett Shakespeare’s red blood cells have a protein deficiency that causes his immune system to attack them, but the drug to treat it effectively costs $500,000 a year.
We’re somehow going to have to get more comfortable, as a society, spending utterly absurd amounts of money on biologicals and being taxed accordingly (my entire annual Canadian tax liability, both federal and provincial, including HST and my Medical Services Plan premiums, would cover maybe a couple weeks of treatment for him)… or accepting some alternative.
