Merrill Goozner: “On a down note, he added his voice to the growing conventional wisdom that prevention measures will not generate savings for the health care system. All candidates for president have made prevention promotion a central motif in their health care plans, claiming that it will save the health care system money in the long run by promoting healthier lifestyles and arresting ill-health before it progresses to chronic disease.”
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This should come as absolutely no surprise. The most cost effective care is episodic or none. A swift demise caused by an advanced disease process is much less expensive than the total body scan that finds every nonlethal condition or artifact that then must be further evaluated or treated unnecessarily. Beyond a few basic screens, ignorance is bliss, and cheap bliss at that.
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