As a follow up to my last post about American media's obsession with all things medical, I happened to watch NBC's "World News" once more last night.
Again it kicked of with a feature on cancer, this one pointing out that mammograms are not very good at discovering early stages of breast cancer. It is now recommended that women should have an MRI every six months. But, this being the land of "NonSocialized Medicine." These cost $2,000 each, and are not covered by any insurance plans.
They also forgot to mention that just about every MRI machine in the US is made by General Electric... Which happens to be the parent company of NBC.
I wonder if that might have anything to do with all the coverage they've been giving to cancer lately?... Nahh... That's just my nasty suspicious mind. You know corporate America would never do anything as venal as that!
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