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But that’s how public healthcare works. You create a system based on population level evidence. If regular mammograms don’t reduce cancer deaths, then you don
by refurb 3y ago
But that’s how public healthcare works. You create a system based on population level evidence.
If regular mammograms don’t reduce cancer deaths, then you don’t pay for them. That might be some people get diagnosed later, have to undergo more aggressive treatment, but that added cost is more than offset by not paying for mammograms for the entire population.
Works great at the population level, but at the individual level it may mean some people “slip through the cracks”.
- fortran77 3y agoI don't disagree! But perhaps they should have two sets of "actuarial tables" -- one for the overweight/obese majority, and one for the right-sized miniority. When ever I see a study that doesn't talk about the "elephant in the room" I don't trust it. There's a prostate cancer treatment algorithm that the Mayo Clinic uses that separates obese people from healthy-weight people. I trust that.