Access to insulin

Posted Feb 13, 2019 18:05 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Access to insulin by nix
Parent article: An open-source artificial pancreas

> That was in fact proposed, but then it was pointed out that this led to effective denial of healthcare to people not in work and/or whose employers will not pay when the system is under any sort of stress at all

Hmmm... I was thinking along the lines - like with the air ambulance example - of the money being diverted from other budgets.

I know it's tricky, but surely it's not beyond the wit of man to come up with some way of the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions, responsible for sick pay) working out how much someone is going to cost on sick pay, and then paying that money to the NHS for a "private" operation if that is going to cost less. So it's funded from a completely different budget to that for the old/unemployed.

Cheers,
Wol