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Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by InclinedPlane on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:00AM (#18865707)
Except this hasn't been true since about 1980. Gains from economic growth have not been passed on to everyone. Health care is not available for everyone, especially. This isn't just a matter of technology.

The "cost" of production of medical technologies has very little to do with their price, in the US anyway.

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Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by andrenth on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:02AM (#18865731)
To everyone, certainly not. To a lot more people? Definitely. Quality of life is better than ever before, worldwide.

We shouldn't discard a system because it's not perfect. The alternative could be much worse.

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Re:Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway by InclinedPlane on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:36PM (#18866743)
Exactly! We should use the system the majority of the developed world relies on: socialized medicine.
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