You evidently are not aware of the millions of dollars of wasted health expenditures and millions of patients undergoing unnecessary suffering in the case of another cancer, prostate, because of false positives. Think about it.
I have cancer, not found until it was advanced, there is a simple test to pick it up in early stafes when it is highly treatable. It is not done because of the expense, women have to demand it. It isnt cost efficient.
But so far my treatment id at around 600 grand plus untold misery.
I had no symptoms, none. I would pay cash to have had it so dont go making cost decision assumptions about whether we need this test or not.
If I had KNOWN about this fifty buck test I would have had it and spared me an early dearh.
Paople who talk about cost efficiency dont get it.
And another thing I AM a physician and a Master in public health to boot so not only do I know but I know the creeps who will use the cost effective tool to make sure people die to make the gov health care CHEAP!
It will bite all of us in one way or the other if we start viewing life itself through that corrupt prism.