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<blockquote data-quote="Poke78" data-source="post: 3070826" data-attributes="member: 4333"><p><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2018/01/10/singlepayer-a-danger-for-cancer-patients-n2432204" target="_blank">https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2018/01/10/singlepayer-a-danger-for-cancer-patients-n2432204</a></p><p></p><p>Single-Payer A Danger For Cancer Patients</p><p></p><p>Today, breast cancer kills 39 percent fewer women than 25 years ago. Prostate cancer kills 52 percent fewer men, the American Cancer Society announced last week. You can thank new technologies that detect cancer early and defeat it for many of the lives saved. Americans diagnosed with most types of cancer have better odds of surviving it in the U.S. than anywhere else on the planet.</p><p></p><p>But watch out. These staggering achievements are at risk. A chorus of Democratic politicians is kicking off 2018 with renewed calls for universal, government-run health care. Leading the pack for single-payer are presidential contenders Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.</p><p></p><p>Single-payer advocates intend to make their scheme affordable by slashing the use of costly medical technology and new drugs. That's a death sentence for many cancer patients. It robs them of what they need to beat their illnesses.</p><p></p><p><em>(More at the link above)</em></p><p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = == = = = == </p><p></p><p>One of the commenters below the article makes the best point and that it is the investments made in multiple kinds of research in the US is what has benefited many all over the world. This would be severely curtailed in a single-payer scheme. The article also makes an excellent point about the way politicians claimed the healthcare system was "broken" because of numbers of uninsured yet totally overlooked the statistics quoted at the opening of the article.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Poke78, post: 3070826, member: 4333"] [URL]https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2018/01/10/singlepayer-a-danger-for-cancer-patients-n2432204[/URL] Single-Payer A Danger For Cancer Patients Today, breast cancer kills 39 percent fewer women than 25 years ago. Prostate cancer kills 52 percent fewer men, the American Cancer Society announced last week. You can thank new technologies that detect cancer early and defeat it for many of the lives saved. Americans diagnosed with most types of cancer have better odds of surviving it in the U.S. than anywhere else on the planet. But watch out. These staggering achievements are at risk. A chorus of Democratic politicians is kicking off 2018 with renewed calls for universal, government-run health care. Leading the pack for single-payer are presidential contenders Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Single-payer advocates intend to make their scheme affordable by slashing the use of costly medical technology and new drugs. That's a death sentence for many cancer patients. It robs them of what they need to beat their illnesses. [I](More at the link above)[/I] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = == = = = == One of the commenters below the article makes the best point and that it is the investments made in multiple kinds of research in the US is what has benefited many all over the world. This would be severely curtailed in a single-payer scheme. The article also makes an excellent point about the way politicians claimed the healthcare system was "broken" because of numbers of uninsured yet totally overlooked the statistics quoted at the opening of the article. [/QUOTE]
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