Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product
by sniperjoe360 on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:55AM
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To add a little nuance, look at the survival for various cancers in the NHS vs the US. Cancer care for example is measurably better in the US in terms of overall survival, early detection, and access to drugs. You "get what you pay for" when it comes to highly specialized care.
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Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product
by CraigJPerry on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:02AM
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>> look at the survival for various cancers in the NHS vs the US
The figures i can find ignore people who can’t afford to become cancer patients in the US - there’s an unknown, but suspected large, number of people cut out of the figures in the US making that stat unfairly stacked vs UK (where everyone regardless of affordability gets access). The people who can’t afford in the US are typicslly the ones more pre-disposed to adverse outcomes in that statistic.