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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6348)3/13/2009 4:10:20 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
I think that it's cheaper to let a diabetic die young even with expensive end-of-life treatment than to pay for the massive amount of low and moderate cost treatment over an additional twenty or thirty year lifetime.

That might be true. And even when preventive care is cheaper in the individual case, often its not a simple, provide preventive care for one person, and prolong one persons life, or avoid expensive later care for one person, but rather provide preventive care for several or many people, and save one life or avoid very expensive treatment for one person.

None of which means preventive care is a bad idea, its often a very good idea, just not necessarily a cost saving one.
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