example of absurdity of current state of US healthcare

I'm generally not an anti-government dude, and there's certainly much bigger issues to deal with when it comes to the US healthcare apparatus, but just encountered an small example of how ridiculous and poorly run US healthcare is becoming. the USPSTF, a panel funded and appointed by the US Department of Health and Human Services, a cabinet level department level of the federal government, recommends low dose CT for lung cancer screening for ages 50-80. Medicare, a government... Read more
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