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An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear

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202 points helsinkiandrew | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 08:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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findthewords ◴[22 Jul 25 09:57 UTC] No.44645035[source]▶
Preventative treatment for disease is ten, hundred, thousand times cheaper than treatment ex post facto.
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fxtentacle ◴[22 Jul 25 10:00 UTC] No.44645054[source]▶
Only if you have an excellent health insurance plan. Otherwise, preventive treatment costs you money, while curative treatment is paid for you.

Sounds like a misguided incentive ...

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DarmokJalad1701 ◴[22 Jul 25 11:22 UTC] No.44645536[source]▶
My insurance covers annual bloodwork/physicals as well as immunizations. I am pretty sure most health insurance policies do.
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Aurornis ◴[22 Jul 25 12:59 UTC] No.44646332[source]▶
The ACA made this standard. It’s been like this for a long time.

When we were hiring a lot of people out of college, I spent way more time than I expected teaching them about how healthcare works and how to find their own information. We found that a lot of them would build their idea about how health insurance works from years of reading Reddit posts: They thought visiting the doctor was always going to be a $1000 bill or a single accident was going to medically bankrupt them, because those are the stories they saw on Reddit. I would explain things like the free annual physical and many just wouldn’t believe me. It’s really tough to cut through the confusion out there.

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1. KittenInABox ◴[22 Jul 25 15:24 UTC] No.44648256[source]▶
I would argue this has severe caveats. I knew a girl in college who was billed over 400$ to test for PCOS, which is one of those diseases that 1) affects just women 2) is underdiagnosed but has severe systemic effects like facial hair growth, diabetes and obesity...