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> shorter waits for specialist visits and advanced imaging procedures

Those are not health outcomes, but merely services KPAs. The KPAs may be better, because a portion of population can't afford the services, so they don't have to be serviced at all.



> can't afford the services, so they don't have to be serviced at all.

If that's true how could:

> The USA generally has higher 5-year cancer survival rates

Still be true? Not providing any services to a significant proportion of population would result in a much lower average.


Not if they are not part of statistic as they cant afford it.


Any evidence that a significant proportion of people (compared to other countries) who died of cancer in the US were never diagnosed?




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