The Dirty Little Secret of Preventative Care and Costs

The Provocateur ^ | 09/02/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

A new study on the supposed cost savings of preventative care has put a mack truck hole in the idea that giving everyone access to preventative care will save health care costs.

Using data from long-standing clinical trials, researchers projected the cost of caring for people with Type 2 diabetes as they progress from diagnosis to various complications and death. Enrolling federally-insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost the government $1,024 per person per year -- money that largely would be recovered after 25 years through lower spending on dialysis, kidney transplants, amputations and other forms of treatment, the study found.

[bcsco]

This was a feature on Fox News this morning.

[fiscon1]

possible...

[laweeks]

No such word as “preventative.”

It is “preventive.” Sorry, but I’m a “stickler.”

[hosepipe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0

[Vendome]

Tell you what, let's get terms of who exactly is doing the financing.  It not some benevolent government it is the taxpayer or rather those of who actually pay taxes.

 

Let's frame the conversation this way from now on:

 

Enrolling federally-insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost those who pay taxes or $1,024 per taxpaying person(taxpayer) per year

[bt_dooftlook]

thus spake the commentator, after getting properly orientated...;)

[laweeks]

“thus spake the commentator, after getting properly orientated...;)”

I’m glad I have learned you good. Carry on!