David Leonhardt explains the flaws in Democratic Presidential Health Plans that erroneously suggest the savings from preventative medicine will pay for a socialized system…
“Fundamentally, if you’re going to control health care costs, it involves denying people care they want “” or things they’ve been trained to think they want,” Mr. Gruber says. “There is no easy answer.”
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But we no longer run our society on emperical data, rather on socially accepted assumptions. I don’t think that preventive care save money either. Especially if you prevent a death from disease A, the person live to get disease B. The cheapest, most efficient health system is the one that provides treatment that improves or saves productive capacity: vaccines for children, treatment of pneumonia in working age people, etc and let the rest die.
Health care is not about the common good or efficiency.