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Re:Tech Apple loses EU court battle over 13B euro tax bill i... by badpun on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:09PM (#41504986)
> shorter waits for specialist visits and advanced imaging procedures

Those are not health outcomes, but merely services KPAs. The KPAs may be better, because a portion of population can't afford the services, so they don't have to be serviced at all.

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Re:Tech Apple loses EU court battle over 13B euro tax bill i... by qwytw on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:39PM (#41506333)
> can't afford the services, so they don't have to be serviced at all.

If that's true how could:

> The USA generally has higher 5-year cancer survival rates

Still be true? Not providing any services to a significant proportion of population would result in a much lower average.

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Re:Tech Apple loses EU court battle over 13B euro tax bill i... by stiray on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @12:21AM (#41507985)
Not if they are not part of statistic as they cant afford it.
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Re:Tech Apple loses EU court battle over 13B euro tax bill i... by Wytwwww on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @03:52AM (#41509082)
Any evidence that a significant proportion of people (compared to other countries) who died of cancer in the US were never diagnosed?
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