Re:Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
by mlyle on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:58PM
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The economic argument doesn't change whether it's a private cost or purely a social cost (private costs are included in social costs, since private expenditures are part of society's expenditures).
Re:Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
by s1artibartfast on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:04PM
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I think the issue is exactly the same no matter who pays.
To reframe it from the individual patient's perspective, when you take a test simply for the sake of screening, there is the chance you'll learn something true that helps you, and the chance you will learn something false that hurts you
For better or worse, under the American healthcare system, the patient pays for those tests, sometimes covered by insurance. If the tests are paid for out of pocket by the patient, is there still such issue?