[HN Gopher] Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait...
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       Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare
        
       Author : hardtke
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2021-03-31 22:29 UTC (30 minutes ago)
        
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       | DonCarlitos wrote:
       | Of course they do, and this is why medicare for all is a great
       | idea. It strikes me as rather perverse that health care is
       | largely a for-profit business and that even non-profits (like
       | systems associated with religions) are all about cutting corners
       | and maximizing revenues. It seems logicl to me that health care
       | be a right.
        
       | lucasmullens wrote:
       | I wonder what kind of circular logic this could create. Clearly
       | we don't need to lower the age of Medicare eligibility, because
       | 64-year-olds never get sick. 65 is the perfect cut-off based on
       | the numbers! /s
        
         | mlthoughts2018 wrote:
         | There would almost surely be a censoring effect no matter what
         | age cutoff you pick, and even allowing for typical government
         | incompetence, surely at some level health econometricians are
         | involved in this type of policy and are aware and facilitate
         | whatever trade-offs are being sought.
         | 
         | I love roasting poor government policy decision making as much
         | as the next person, but that would be a bridge too far.
        
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