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WHO announced that the growth in cancer is due to old people ... Unwelcome news: The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer projects that the world will see more than 35 million new cancer cases by 2050, a nearly 80 percent increase from the estimated 20 million cases globally in 2022. The increase is partly due to expected population growth, but it’s also because the WHO thinks elderly people will make up a greater share of the total and people worldwide will continue to smoke and drink and breathe polluted air ..... https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2024/02/02/a-cancer-reality-check-00139250

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Remember "GDP is defined by the following formula: GDP = Consumption + Investment + Government Spending + Net Exports" so just based on this formula, the government can increase the GDP by spending more .... regardless of what this does to deficit ... https://www.britannica.com/money/what-is-gdp

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Meta absolutely mooning

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Sad state state of affairs continue to unravel in the American Healthcare system. The government, politicians, insurance, provider organizations, PBMs, and big lobby have collectively weaponized the healthcare industrial complex against their own people for the express intent of forcing people to live a sickly life. A simple exchange of healthcare service provided by a clinician to a patient and having access to drugs, devices, and other tools to recover or just live is riddled with gatekeepers & a middleperson economy that adds no value to the entire industry. As a byproduct of this severe bureaucratic constipation, the largest group of people with a medical debt in the US are people with an insurance, per latest report from guardian! From my experience working in this industry, our work needs to go beyond technology and deep into policy based interventions.

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Final Test - a disruptive new technology

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Great line up this week

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