Cost of cancer is a hard pill to swallow
The high cost of cancer - which kills a half-million people a year in this country - is distributed in part among hospitals and health insurers, but the government funds a lot of it. Part of the reason the cost is so steep is that for the uninsured, early screening rarely happens. “People who don’t have insurance are diagnosed at a much later stage when it is less treatable and more expensive… to treat them,” said Lisa Daglian, a spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society.
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