🚬A reduction in smoking
👩🏽⚕️ Advances in surgery and diagnosis
💊New and more effective medicines trib.al/SuwtW6F
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In fact, the improved outcomes in oncology stand in sharp contrast with other trends in life expectancy, which has outright declined in recent years trib.al/SuwtW6F
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➡️Influenza
➡️Suicide
➡️Accidents
➡️Alzheimer’s
➡️Diabetes trib.al/SuwtW6F
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Drugmakers can stick 6-figure price tags on cancer drugs with less pushback from insurers than they get for medicines that target chronic conditions trib.al/SuwtW6F
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It’s not hard to see why drug companies favor pumping money into cancer R&D trib.al/SuwtW6F
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Unless the government changes incentives to better target areas of unmet need, that may not change trib.al/SuwtW6F
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Given the high cost of treatment in American hospitals, prevention is always a better deal trib.al/SuwtW6F
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🥦Reducing obesity
💉 Reducing infection rates of hepatitis C and HPV
Unfortunately, thinking ahead is rarely what the U.S. health system prioritizes or where it excels trib.al/SuwtW6F
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