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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (4118)	1/29/2008 3:24:43 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

What's wrong? Well there is no consideration of the positive side of not getting treatment or tests if your exposed to at least some of its cost. Many tests don't tell a whole lot (the false positive rate may be fairly low, but if the incidence is also low you may have more chance to have a false positive than a real positive if the rest shows you have the condition). I'm not sure if this idea applies to breast cancer or not (after all breast cancer isn't a rare disease) but it does often apply. Also tests can themselves be harmful, as can treatments in response to false positives. Another thing is it doesn't speculate about any differences in the plans or the people likely to pick each plan, other than the copayments that might be a factor in mammogram rates. Moving away from just considering mammograms, letting people feel some of the cost and decide based on that whether they will have a procedure is generally a good thing. Containing costs is important, as resources are always and everywhere limited. The savings can even increase health care quality because they might be used to deal with other health care concerns.

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