Medicare Breast Cancer Costs Skyrocketed A Decade Ago, But No More Were Helped

Friday, July 11, 2014 - 06:30 in Health & Medicine

While almost everyone agrees that the American health system was not perfect - high quality, but some could not afford it - the solution may not have been more government spending, since government was not spending money all that wisely well before 2009. Take one data point:  Medicare breast cancer screening. You are not for breast cancer, right? No one is. Yet while breast cancer screening costs for Medicare patients skyrocketed between 2001 and 2009, there was no earlier detection of breast cancer. read more

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