This suggests the healthcare equivalent of 'shrinkflation'. Can't get away with changing the price because everybody notices, (especially when it's free). So leave the price the same and just offer less in return.https://twitter.com/EL4JC/status/946747420750368768 …
Even if I accepted your assertion, (tho I could throw national state of health/quality of life into the pot to expand that debate), I'd expect existing treatments to be protected against inflation & ppn growth as a min. Even if new treatments prove unaffordable
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Paradoxically as we get better at healing people we leave more sick people in the system needing more care.
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Presumably those extra sick people are coming from some group other than those you suggest we got better at healing? Otherwise, it could be seen as stretching the definition of healing.
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“Survivorship” is an increasing issue.
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It seems so. Helping somebody to survive is only step 1 in helping them to continue living, I guess?
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Very much so. Important not to walk away at that point, imo.
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Naturally. So are there particular new things we're now doing for patients which are contributing to this increasing group of sick people? Is it all about surviving heart attacks? Or is there more to the picture?
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Across the board. For example my field was throat cancer patients. Many surviving, but never swallow again.
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Interesting. I've no frame of reference for your field, but I wonder what role early diagnosis has played in some of these issues? Have you ever seen any of the Gilbert Welch material?https://twitter.com/C7RKY/status/931462246382886912 …
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