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Fewer People Are Dying of Cancer Than Ever Before (theoutline.com)
The number of Americans dying of cancer has dropped to a 25-year low, equaling an estimated 2,143,200 fewer deaths in that period, says the new annual report from the American Cancer Society. In that time, the racial and gender disparities that exist in cancer rates have also narrowed somewhat, but they remain wide in many places. From a report on The Outline: Though the incidence of cancer remained stable for women and dropped slightly -- by 2 percent -- in men, rates remain overall 20 percent higher in men while rate of death for men is 40 percent higher than in women. The rates of both incidence and death vary wildly based on the type of cancer. The data that the ACS is using run through the end of 2014 for incidents of cancer and through 2013 for deaths. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States for both men and women..
Not to worry, then. The Republicans will put survivability down where it belongs. After all, in a Libertarian paradise, the poor should rightly and properly die from cancer.
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Nice straw man.
Libertarians realize that everyone will die. Libertarians think that forcing someone else to prolong your life is selfish and wrong.
Look, I'm afraid of death, just like anyone else. But I agree that taking from someone else and inflicting damage on their life just to put off my own inevitable demise is selfish and wrong.
Work hard. Save money. Pay for the things that you want to pay for. Don't force someone else to pay for your stuff-- and that includes your medical treatment.
Ah yes, the nice sociopathic Libertarian "you have the freedom to starve" line. I love how greedy sociopaths try to philosophically justify what amounts to a big "fuck you" to the rest of society.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
From TFA: "Although the cancer death rate remained 15% higher in blacks than in whites in 2014, increasing access to care as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may contribute to a further narrowing of the racial gap across all population groups. In 2015, 11% of blacks and 7% of non-Hispanic whites were uninsured, compared with 21% of blacks and 12% of non-Hispanic whites in 2010. Progress for Hispanics is similar, with the uninsured rate dropping from 31% in 2010 to 16% in 2015."
Conservatives will want to get this turned around as fast as they can.
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