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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (38962)	11/24/2009 3:00:48 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 71588

But very little is spent on prevention. Again depends on how you define prevention, it seems to mean different things to different people, or to the same people in different contexts. These diseases are largely preventable and even reversible through preventative measures, i.e., lifestyle, nutrition and physical activity. They are somewhat preventable or reversible, but not so much through national government policy. You need tens of millions of people to change their lifestyle decisions. Health care "reform" (or even real reform without the quotes) is unlikely to do that. Some small change at the margin maybe, but even if 75% of health care costs "are accounted for by prostate cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity", not all of those issues are due to lifestyle choices or issues with preventive medicine, and the majority of those that are do to lifestyle choices aren't going to be easily changed. If you make a huge effort to address the 75% you might save 2% while spending 1% extra on the effort. And if your unlucky, those percentages might be reversed.

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