[achiang]

Full body scans are a common preventative measure in Taiwan.

My parents (expats, living in the US for over 50 years) flew back and got routine scans (MRI, PET, CT) in February for about $1000 USD total.

Similar to this story, they found a tumor on my dad's pancreas. A biopsy confirmed it, and he had surgery in August. They caught it at stage I. We're very lucky.

The latency from February til August was entirely convincing the US medical system to take his Taiwanese images seriously. They finally gave up and went back to Taiwan to get the procedure done.

I'm getting older myself and will absolutely be paying for any sort of imaging available.

This should be more broadly available to everyone. I'd be happy for more of my tax dollars to go to preventative care rather than rear guard action.