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> No, but people with insurance go for screening in fairly large numbers.
> 

And treatment.  A good half a score of people I know died in the past five or 
six years from aggressive treatment for this or that illness.  Now, in almost 
every case they were going to die of the malady for which they were being 
treated, but not right away.  One contracted lung cancer from smoking and had 
a 
lobectomy.  But believing in the efficacy of medicine (being as he was, a 
pharmacist) he opted for a ghastly dose of radiation therapy which induced 
clinical 
phemanitis and he died a few weeks after the treatment.  His prognosis 
without it was five to seven years IF the cancer returned, which it probably 
would 
have.  

Another friend and former business partner got prostrate cancer and when he 
went for treatment of the cancer, they said his BP and choleserol were way 
too 
high and put him on so many pills he rattled when he walked.  He got very 
sick 
and he and his wife both attributed it to the medicine.  While switching 
around and adjucting doses of the calcium channel blockers, he died of 
massive 
heart failure.

In these and many more cases, the person had enough insurance that they could 
afford all sorts of invasive treatement which killed them more quickly than 
the disease for which they were being treated.

Too much insurance is dangerous to your health.