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To: Alighieri who wrote (505441)	8/17/2009 10:08:05 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576321

Krauthammer is regurgitating the data from the new england journal's article I posted. But the article has been challenged for looking at prevention in the same narrow way as you do. Actually, when you look at prevention "narrowly" you can find niches where it DOES save money. It is the broader view that is not financially feasible. Newt Gingrich -- one of the more informed voices on this subject -- has put it very eloquently in the last week or so. He has recognized that there are specific diseases (e.g., Altzheimers) where there could be an actual SAVINGS from prevention, because the costs are huge as is the affected population, and a cure could be just around the corner. I totally support his idea of Alzehimer's bonds to fund the investment necessary to eliminate the disease. We will spend $20 Trillion on Alzheimers treatment for the people who are alive today. Yet, we spend $400 million/year on research to find the cure, and it may well be within reach. It is stupid not to go after it. But the difference is you kill the disease (as Polio was killed), rather blow money on the warehousing of affected patients. And you choose carefully what you'll go after to yield the biggest bang for the buck. Just shouting, as Obama has, that "preventive" medicine will save money, is the wrong approach. It is a lie and the fact that it is a lie is eventually going to come out and further damage his attempt to reform health care.