If you’re blaming social conservatism, then I’m calling you out for an out-of-touch liberal.
Australia negotiated some deal with the manufacturer and immunises every child and found it to be a great deal: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I don't know or care about the US's inability to negotiate drug prices or unwillingness to fund useful programs - which is a choice.
> I’m calling you out for an out-of-touch liberal.
lol
this site is amazing sometimes. people have the knowledge of the world available at their fingertips, can read the experiences of people from all around the world and still end up making some strongly worded reply about how the important thing is how much you can buy an HPV vaccine at a discount retail chain in the countryside after a country failed to work towards an obvious public good? what a time to be alive.
Their typical reply to this is that all of that information is fake subterfuge by Big Tech^tm
It's just like... damn dude. What went wrong in these people's lives to make them so stupid and angry at data/information
The ACA also dramatically increased access to it: https://publichealth.uga.edu/hpv-vaccination-rates-increased...
> The results showed that participants post-ACA were 3.3 times more likely to get the HPV vaccine, and more people reported completing the full series of vaccinations.
Conservative opposition to it isn't hard to find: https://www.christianpost.com/news/conservatives-raise-red-f...
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In fact, I’ll do the legwork for you and report to you exactly what they say. I’ll be right back.
Update:
I was wrong! Massive price deduction. It will cost me only $567 for 3 shots total!! That’s such a small amount of money for rural America right? An entire month’s small apartment rent for a vaccine. And Medicaid and ACA still don’t cover it.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/payment.html
Click through to the FAQ to see a) a list of covered vaccines AND b) the statement that they're free of cost for "Medicaid-eligible" kids.
https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-adults/
> All Marketplace health plans and many other plans must cover the following list of preventive services without charging you a copayment or coinsurance. This is true even if you haven’t met your yearly deductible.
#15 indicates the HPV vaccine for adults is now included.
Pre-vaccine, about 80% of adults end up with it[0]. It’s just that it’s usually (grossly) asymptomatic, so the prevalence is less obvious. However, not seeing a wart doesn’t necessarily say much about cancer risk.
So it’s not everyone paying for “sluts”; it’s everyone paying for everyone so that no one pays a lot when they lose the cancer lottery.
[0] Literally in bold here https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm
http://www.med.umich.edu/1info/FHP/practiceguides/adult.imms...
Then it's $666.
$195 per shot + $27 administrative fee per shot x 3 shots.
It may not be worth trumpeting this as an achievement, though. Just go ask any doc what they think of CMS.
Some services are better provided collectively (schools, prisons, healthcare) and some are better provided by the private markets (Apple). The former strengthens the latter.
At the end of the day even the 'socialized medicine' debate isn't such a big decision. It's just about extending socialized medicine in the US from 40% of the population (today covered by Medicare and Medicaid) to 100%. It's clearly better of course - as John Oliver expressed 'there's a right way and a wrong way to do healthcare and we do it the wrong way'. But it is, on the spectrum of absolute socialism to absolute capitalism, a small tweak.
Social Conservatism is what causes medications to not be subsidized.
Social Conservatism is what keeps America the only developed nation without universal healthcare.
The problem with crony capitalism is the crony, not the capitalism. Socialized healthcare is not the panacea that some people seem to think. And the ACA in the US isn't really either - more the like the worst of both worlds.
Are we to assume you're an actual Linux distribution having reached sentience from your username, or can we assume it's just a moniker selected for some other reason?
Does anyone actually think I'm a communist because of my username? Because even if you were a right-of-center libertarian, the root causes for America's failings on healthcare are a matter of the public voting record. It's not a communist opinion to blame this on social conservatives because social conservatives PROUDLY proclaim their disdain for "Obamacare" and any other form of medical socialism.
(Once again, I mean socialism in the Bernie Sanders, Denmark, Germany, Canada sort of way, not the Stalin sort of way.)