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This should be the follow up study. Are there higher rates of higher state cancer in America and do they correlate with access to health insurance?
by MattGaiser 6y ago
This should be the follow up study. Are there higher rates of higher state cancer in America and do they correlate with access to health insurance?
- spaetzleesser 6y agoI think people are waiting too long. And hospitals are probably not unhappy with that. I bet there is way more money in late stage cancer treatments vs early stage.
- cced 6y agoWhen your system would rather make money from your treatment of stage 4 cancer than benefit from a healthy and cured stage 1 cancer survivor. I’m happy my taxes go towards helping people get out of stage 1 than seeing people live their final days in stage 4.
- xtracto 6y agoExactly, that's one reason why government paid social health care is aligned with this: The government benefits from doing prevention programmes as it is cheaper than late treatment. Germany had all kind of preventative help/medicine when I lived there.
- refurb 6y agoWhy would a private insurer not have the same incentive? Collect full premiums, but overall lower costs with early detection and treatment?
- Gibbon1 6y agoThe US system hopes that people get untreatable stage 4 cancer and die quickly.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoMaybe the insurers. Hospitals prefer treating them in the most expensive way.
- Gibbon1 6y agoHeard the Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF say they make most of their money on elective procedures.