Price caps sound great, until you have cancer and a 2-year waitlist

There’s never a good time or place to be diagnosed with cancer. But some times and places are worse than others.

Price caps sound great, until you have cancer and a 2-year waitlist

TL;DR

  • Cancer patients in Europe face record wait times for new treatments.
  • It takes 655 days on average for European government-run insurance systems to offer approved oncology drugs.
  • This delay occurs after European regulators approve a new oncology drug.