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Chemotherapy Incentive System Is Perverse

Much chemotherapy is relatively ineffective with enormous side effects and high expense, yet a perverse incentive system in which doctors receive part of the revenue from selling the treatments sustains its use; if patients understood this system better they would be less open to it.

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Speaker

Steven Levitt

Evidence Quote

how much chemotherapy is relatively ineffective, has enormous side effects

Source

Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of EconomicsEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:19:15 AM

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