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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

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150 points pmags | 3 comments | 10 Apr 25 12:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.774s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[10 Apr 25 13:20 UTC] No.43643507[source]▶
> projected would, in that year alone, prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 cases of asthma, reaping up to $46 billion in health benefits.

That's the even crazier part - the savings in health benefits. Not sure what it takes to motivate even the most selfish out there.

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1. dgfitz ◴[10 Apr 25 13:26 UTC] No.43643562[source]▶
I think the crazy part is that the math of 46 billion divided by 804,500 is almost 60k/case.

Maybe this is also highlighting a different problem.

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2. pintxo ◴[10 Apr 25 14:14 UTC] No.43643998[source]▶
One 1-2k/year seems rather cheap to treat an ongoing chronic illness? As asthma will be an ongoing problem when started?
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3. dgfitz ◴[11 Apr 25 18:22 UTC] No.43656793[source]▶
Asthma is a “solved problem” medically, the rest is just rent-seeking.