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To: bentway who wrote (727419)	7/18/2013 6:13:02 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580828

>> We know that if you catch cancer early, it can be eliminated and cured a comparitively low cost, but if you don't, it can be ruinously expensive to treat and still be fatal. It's the same with many, many other conditions. So, you're the ONLY one I know of that knows that "empirically". This is simply not factual. If you want to save money, you simply let people die. Saving lives is expensive. Since Obamacare was enacted we have seen TONS of positions on preventive care morph into just that. Concern over the cost of false positives now outweighs the importance of things such as colonoscopy, mammography, prostate examination and the PSA. The goal is no longer to catch cancer early, it is to minimize the cost of looking for it. For years we were told catching it early was what you want; now, the emphasis is on eliminating unnecessary testing and biopsies of cancers that "might not actually kill you." No shit. A total reversal of years of preventive care. Preventive care has been shown to be overrated. If you want to save lives cheaply, get people to eat sensibly, stop smoking, exercise, etc. Preventive care, like expensive medications targeting the prevention of heart disease, are not proven effective at doing that; they're just effective in reducing numbers that happen to correlate with heart disease. It has been shown that providing people with health insurance does little or nothing to promote better health. Meanwhile, it robs those who WOULD avail themselves of insurance of any opportunity by producing higher costs because of government mismanagement.