- Jun 8, 2005
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Color me crazy but I don't understand what all this preventative care stuff is all about. It seems logical that people will eventually die right? And in modern medicine, there is no "natural" death. There is always SOME procedure that can be done to try to save the person's life, and you betcha it will be expensive.
So what will preventative care do to lower costs? Doesn't it just push costs down the road? What is cheaper? Someone dying in their 40s of a heart attack or someone dying in their 90s after 30 years of nursing home, a few stent procedures and a few hip/joint replacements? Of course, I'm not saying that living longer isn't a bad thing, but I just don't understand the argument that preventative care helps save money.
So what will preventative care do to lower costs? Doesn't it just push costs down the road? What is cheaper? Someone dying in their 40s of a heart attack or someone dying in their 90s after 30 years of nursing home, a few stent procedures and a few hip/joint replacements? Of course, I'm not saying that living longer isn't a bad thing, but I just don't understand the argument that preventative care helps save money.