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Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by dang on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:53AM (#18871825)
Personal attacks will get you banned here regardless of how wrong or provocative another comment is.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by merpnderp on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:19AM (#18865908)
Are you ashamed to live on this earth with most of Europe which waited nearly 10 years to buy into proton radiation therapy after the US adopted it? For nearly a decade there were more therapy machines in my tiny low population poor state than all of the UK.
Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by mijamo on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:01PM (#18866361)
Well most of Europe ranka much better than the US on Healthcare so no.
Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by merpnderp on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:24PM (#18866612)
With a much less healthy population the US sees significant cancer and heart disease treatment successes over most of Europe. The US may pay quite a bit more for these successes, but it's not exactly black and white on which is better. There's a reason the top five cancer centers in the world are in the US.

Edit: Just realized my mistake. You are fine with trickle down healthcare in Europe, but are not fine with it in the US. There was absolutely nothing to be gained by engaging with someone so openly biased. My bad.

Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by DanBC on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:50AM (#18872471)
> the US sees significant cancer [...] treatment successes over most of Europe

Does it? What's your source please.

Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by andrenth on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:52AM (#18865633)
No, I'm saying: technology becomes cheaper and more available over time.

As for you being ashamed: cry me a river.