Executive summary
Cancer cases are up by 2.5X in New York state Medicaid vs. a 2017-2019 baseline.
Is this normal? Absolutely not! This is a very serious problem.
Isn’t it awesome that they keep these numbers confidential? And that nobody in the mainstream press will look into this?
The data
You can examine the data: NY Medicaid ICD-10 Cxx codes data (2019-2023) (the link downloads the xlsx spreadsheet).
Cancers with the highest increase
The ratio column is the ratio vs. counts in the 2019 baseline.
Overall, there was a 2.5X increase over baseline.
Some cancers got better vs. baseline, others got worse. The odds that a given cancer code got worse were 25:1.
Note that the rates of increase strongly depends on the type of cancer. This means that they can’t use the excuse that this is all because people didn’t get treated for their cancers during the Covid lockdowns. It that were the case, the increases would be the roughly the same for all cancer types, not dramatically different.
Hellbound and Down 