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"The studies of colonoscopies DO include the costs, in that they have looked at total cancer rates for people who do and do not get the procedures. They have observed that people who recieve colonoscopies have a lower overall risk of dying from colon cancer."

The only results from comparing screened versus unscreened patients show MARGINAL (or even ZERO) decreased risk of colorectal cancer. What's more, the SCREENED groups had a higher ALL-CAUSE mortality rate. Read that last part again.

Colonoscopies are a sham. Period.

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To clarify: I don't mean to say the goal is maximizing bad cuts to spending and minimizing good cuts to spending; I mean maximizing cuts to bad spending and minimizing cuts to good spending. This should be obvious from context, but I apologize for the ambiguous grammar.

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