Comments on: Cons, do you fear that breast cancer rates will rise if we adopt a similar health care system like Switzerland?

By: Jeremy S

Jeremy S — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:16:59 +0000

Yes survival rates will drop because people will have to wait long for treatment because there will be more patients per doctor. Also more specialists will leave the practice as reimbursement rates drop.
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By: Poohcat1

Poohcat1 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:38:59 +0000

Breast cancer deaths will in all likelihood rise if the public option becomes the only option for most. Breast cancer as well as deaths from several other diseases are higher in countries that have socialized medicine. Just the public option itself will not do this…but many see the public option as only the first step in a gradual slide downward to socialized medicine. Environment and heredity play a vital role in who gets breast cancer, but quick and reliable treatment for it is the key to a cure for those who do get it. In socialized medicine, it is a fact that people do have to wait a couple weeks or month longer to see a doctor..even longer for a specialist and surgeries…and for some kinds of rapidly moving breast cancers, those two weeks or so could well make a difference in the patients chance for survival.

As far as improving someone’s odds, medicine has come a long way in twenty five years since my husbands first wife got breast cancer. With todays treatments and tests to check for problems, she would probably have still been alive today. By the time it was found, it was to late. Prevention is the best treatment of all, not only for breast cancer but for countless other diseases as well. In my opinion, we would be far better off making sure that everyone in the country has FREE checks for things like breast, colon, uterine or prostrate cancer and diabetes than to worry about the other end of the spectrum. If you prevent the disease, you won’t have huge life destroying bills at the end.
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By: Stop Spending Our Money

Stop Spending Our Money — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:12:59 +0000

I think it is the rationing of medicine to treat advanced and used in after surgery they are quoting.

The other countries have no other option but to ration certain medicines and refuse to offer others due to their costs and due to their socialized medicine has to be held in "financial check".

While I do not think anyone uses this as their main objection to socialized health care, it is a reality that will have to be dealt with.

The guy above mentioned the incentives for future development so I will skip that part.
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By: Brad,mr.cat in the hat

Brad,mr.cat in the hat — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:59:59 +0000

how would that even work that's like saying if you eat a box of cyanide but live in a country where the health care is completely capitalist you;d be fine
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By: Rancid Stench of BO

Rancid Stench of BO — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:35:59 +0000

yes
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By: Waldo Kinetti

Waldo Kinetti — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:58:59 +0000

Save the Ta Tas
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