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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by xtracto on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:24PM (#26655964)
Exactly, that's one reason why government paid social health care is aligned with this: The government benefits from doing prevention programmes as it is cheaper than late treatment.

Germany had all kind of preventative help/medicine when I lived there.

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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by refurb on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:16AM (#26658967)
Why would a private insurer not have the same incentive? Collect full premiums, but overall lower costs with early detection and treatment?
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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by mbg721 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:20AM (#26658998)
The older and sicker patients tend to move from the private insurer's risk pool to the public one.
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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by refurb on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:08AM (#26659994)
Agreed. But there is still an incentive for private insurers to limit future costs.
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