Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study

Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by 1123581321 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:26PM (#26654540)

Both sides would say that they are the ones supporting the nation's health and supporting people having access to healthcare. The reasons why typically have to do with the average quality of care and the cost--the same things you want to improve--however, while you advocate for removing the private market to improve health, they advocate for removing the government skew on the market to improve it.

A lot of ink has been spilled over it, on both sides.

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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by solosoyokaze on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:39PM (#26654661)

There's a third side and it's the one that's been winning: use regulatory capture to increase health industry profits. This is the side that brought you the ACA and individual mandate. The only reason the mandate existed was to protect insurance company profits. If you look at the cost of healthcare, it's skyrocketed post-ACA.

While I'm a proponent of socialized medicine and M4A, without a doubt even the free market would be better than what we have.

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