Catching cervical cancer early

[Bob78164]

According to this study, reported here, cervical cancer diagnoses have risen for women between 21 and 25, whereas they have remained relatively constant for women between 26 and 34. The difference is the Affordable Care Act. Under the Act, people can stay on their parents' policies until age 25. That's letting women catch cancers early and treat them more effectively and more cheaply.

The Affordable Care Act isn't just morally right. It's also better for our economy. --Bob

[BackInTex]

According to this study, reported here, cervical cancer diagnoses have risen for women between 21 and 25, whereas they have remained relatively constant for women between 26 and 34. The difference is the Affordable Care Act. Under the Act, people can stay on their parents' policies until age 25. That's letting women catch cancers early and treat them more effectively and more cheaply.

The Affordable Care Act isn't just morally right. It's also better for our economy. --Bob

If the cancer rate is constant for 26-34 but higher in 21-25, then it is up. If they are catching earlier what they previously caught later, then the later catches would drop, not remain constant. But since they are constant, there must be more cancer. Or the early diagnosis doesn't help.

Thus, I guess, ACA causes cancer.

[Bob78164]

According to this study, reported here, cervical cancer diagnoses have risen for women between 21 and 25, whereas they have remained relatively constant for women between 26 and 34. The difference is the Affordable Care Act. Under the Act, people can stay on their parents' policies until age 25. That's letting women catch cancers early and treat them more effectively and more cheaply.

The Affordable Care Act isn't just morally right. It's also better for our economy. --Bob

If the cancer rate is constant for 26-34 but higher in 21-25, then it is up. If they are catching earlier what they previously caught later, then the later catches would drop, not remain constant. But since they are constant, there must be more cancer. Or the early diagnosis doesn't help.

Thus, I guess, ACA causes cancer.

Except that the study appears to depend on data from only the first two years of the Act, so only 26- and 27-year-old women would have had a chance to benefit from earlier detection thanks to the Act. Your point will be more valid if later studies find no drop among the 26-34 cohort. --Bob

[Bob Juch]

The HPV vaccine should cause a lowering of the rate.

[BackInTex]

According to this study, reported here, cervical cancer diagnoses have risen for women between 21 and 25, whereas they have remained relatively constant for women between 26 and 34. The difference is the Affordable Care Act. Under the Act, people can stay on their parents' policies until age 25. That's letting women catch cancers early and treat them more effectively and more cheaply.

The Affordable Care Act isn't just morally right. It's also better for our economy. --Bob

If the cancer rate is constant for 26-34 but higher in 21-25, then it is up. If they are catching earlier what they previously caught later, then the later catches would drop, not remain constant. But since they are constant, there must be more cancer. Or the early diagnosis doesn't help.

Thus, I guess, ACA causes cancer.

Except that the study appears to depend on data from only the first two years of the Act, so only 26- and 27-year-old women would have had a chance to benefit from earlier detection thanks to the Act. Your point will be more valid if later studies find no drop among the 26-34 cohort. --Bob

True. I did not consider that.