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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by Alupis on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:20PM (#26655926)
Those are not the same.

Bad teeth impacts you and you alone.

On the other hand, your nation, state, city, employer, etc are all run by people who were educated in this country. You directly benefit from roads every time you buy goods from any business, etc.

Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:26AM (#26661652)
It's absolutely the same, has COVID taught you nothing about what happens to an economy when an diseases are out of controll?

Do you think disease ridden population carrying ringworms earns well, shows up for work reliably and are good customers?

If healthcare was left to free market completely, we'd see return of The Plague!

Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by Alupis on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:22PM (#26665557)
You cannot transmit your tooth rot to anyone else.

> If healthcare was left to free market completely

What evidence of this do you have? Because, in the US, healthcare largely is free market and we do not have the return of any plague or anything similar. In fact, it's free markets that bore out the vaccination the world is using to fight the current pandemic.

Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by roganartu on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:50AM (#26656781)
They are far more similar than you give them credit for.

Part of the reason healthcare is so expensive in the US is because people cannot afford to get preventative care and so they wait until they are basically dying and then go to the emergency room. If they couldn’t afford $100 to see a doctor before, they can’t afford the $100k the hospital will bill them so they just go bankrupt and the hospital loses it all. The hospital covers these expected delinquent accounts by charging more to people with insurance. The insurance covers these higher costs by charging higher premiums. You are already paying for other people, you’re just doing it the expensive way because there’s so many for-profit organizations in between you and those other people.