Prevention Usually Doesn’t Pay
An ounce of prevention may have been worth a pound of cure in households down through the ages, but in the world of health economics the adage, alas, is not true….
Even when prevention greatly reduces future cases of a particular illness, overall cost to the health-care system typically goes up when lots of disease-preventing strategies are put into practice. This is usually true whether treating the preventable diseases is cheap or expensive.
This is from an article in the Washington Post.
Ahh, if only there were some way to not hemorrhage money at any instant that the chronically ill decide they want something. Alas . . .