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Hospitals Look to a Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
The feed points us to a NYTimes article about hospitals using particle accelerators to treat cancer. While expensive, proponents say that the proton beams generated by the accelerators are more precise than conventional X-ray radiation therapy. This results in fewer side effects and reduced irradiation of surrounding tissue. The technology's critics say that the cost is not justified by a measurable increase in the level of care given to the patients. Nevertheless, this is an excellent example of "pure scientific research" leading to a useful, unrelated technique. From the NYTimes:
"Tumors in or near the eye, for instance, can be eradicated by protons without destroying vision or irradiating the brain. Protons are also valuable for treating tumors in brains, necks and spines, and tumors in children, who are especially sensitive to the side effects of radiation."
Aw, you big fibber!
We know you want to intimidate the bullys who are thugging your lunch money,
not to mention impress the girls with your suddenly-non-pencil-neck.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Would my kid be worth that much to you?
Who knows, but when you buy into socialist stuff like insurance, when people quit ponying up the cash, the regime falls over.
The answer to the "health care crisis" isn't government insurance, isn't forced insurance, it's no insurance. When doctors discover that no real people can pay for their treatments, they'll either go broke or reduce costs.
And then if someone wants to pay 5 times more to give little Timmy a 2% chance of getting better with a 50% reduced probability of being blinded for the rest of his now-"healthy" life, they can go right ahead, because there won't be some suit skimming billions of dollars *cough*UHC*cough* off the top telling them "no".