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If you are rich, get cancer and can pick any country to get treatment in, which country do you go to? Obviously it would depend on the specific cancer, but I th
by Mirioron 7y ago
If you are rich, get cancer and can pick any country to get treatment in, which country do you go to? Obviously it would depend on the specific cancer, but I think the US would be the best bet in aggregate.
- Someone1234 7y agoAnd if you're not rich, and get cancer, which country do you go to? I bet in aggregate it is never the US.
- Mirioron 7y agoWell, it depends on what citizenship you have. The point is that if it's expensive in the US now then perhaps in the future it will be cheaper and available elsewhere.
- claudeganon 7y agoThe purchasing and marking up of expired drugs/patents and blocking of transition to generic status seem the obvious counterexamples here... https://hbr.org/2017/04/how-pharma-companies-game-the-system-to-keep-drugs-expensive https://hbr.org/2017/04/how-pharma-companies-game-the-system...
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- harryh 7y agoCorrect. Cancer survival rates in the US are generally the highest in the world (it varies a bit by cancer type). https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2....