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Surely this can be blamed on Trump in some way.
I don’t care what the “costs” are; the healthcare institutions should pay for it without quibbling...
Any healthcare institution that refuses needs to be put out of business...
That’s just the ranting of this 92-year-old Freeper, who knows how to recognize issues to battle for: Communism and cancer, although communism is just another cancer...
Because big pharma makes more money keeping people sick than curing them.
There are no words that can describe what I think of people like that, someone who would sacrifice a human life for the sake of money and power.
That means treatment protocols are framed to generate the most profit, not what's best for the patient.
They will put a patient through grueling radiation treatment first before trying a less invasive and destructive therapy so they can collect money from both.
Insurance doesn’t care its subsidized
Govt money is never meant to achieve actual results. Get the govt out of the health care business.
After the surgery, she said, she was back at work within two months — a feat that would not have occurred with whole breast irradiation.
I think two months off is a bit excessive. She must have had a lot of sick time saved up.
“big pharma makes more money keeping people sick than curing them.”
As in many industries, there’s money to be made in prolonging the problem.
A friend worked at a popular gas station. Every Friday after work for a lot of people, customers bought gasoline.
9 of 10 women customers, bought lots of cigarettes.
“The technique, known as IORT, has numerous benefits, surgeons say, but it generates less money for hospitals and radiation oncologists.”
True or not. that it could be true is the point. Share price or profits should not be a consideration for medical care.
Of all the cancers out there the ones men go through are more prevalent and much more deadly. Just how many of these women are ready to open their purses when Adam Schiff comes down with cancer of the prostate?
20% having to return means that 80% don’t have to return.
If the lady in the article works for a large corporation or a government entity, she has long term disability insurance. My company offers put to a year off wit 70% pay for health issues such as cancer.
Not usually protocols by the hospital, m9re often protocols dictated by insurance companies.
Hospital's , including the one I work in hire East Indian and Filipino doctors for much less than American born doctors. And as soon as they can these immigrant doctors send for the whole family including grandma. I'm hoping Trump puts a stop to this.
I had a friend being treated at a few big medical centers in Houston. The doctors were employees. He questioned his plan of treatment and why he though it might not be correct. One doctor said he couldn’t change it and couldn’t say why. Not much independence.
DOGE and global warming too.
For the breast doctor to irradiate the entire breast, doctor gets $1300? But the whole procedure costs $30,000?
If people actually sat down and mapped out the whole cartel between insurance and hospitals they might actually vote out the democrats. BUT all most people need to hear “FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL.”
Well, if you are 92, I’ll listen.
Strictly from the expense point of view, that 20% having to return for traditional radiation therapy costs quite a bit. They’ve paid for the IORT, then regular radiation on top of that. That’s not very cost efficient. Add to that the higher rate of recurrence with IORT, I’m doubtful that there is much savings at all.
I was in the Army when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had two weeks off after surgery. I had radiation for five weeks, and went to work immediately after each radiation treatment. That’s why I think the two months off for cancer treatment sounds excessive. It’s been almost six years since my diagnosis. I’m still being treated, but I am retired now with 100% disability.
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