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You are kidding, right? Without high blood pressure medicine, you have stroke or heart attack. Without antibiotics, you get sicker. I, myself, avoided expensive surgery with a few dollars worth of pain medicine (but that is anecdotal).

Will the high blood pressure meds prevent a stroke or heart attack from ever occurring? Or will it delay the incident?

I don't argue that medicine is a wonderful thing for improving the quality and length of one's life. But if you're going to cite Rx drugs as saving hospitalization costs down the road, all I'm asking for is your proof. Should be easy to provide, if the case is as clearcut as you state. Right?

Proof such as it is.

Joe gets kidney stone. Surgury to remove stone $15K.

Pill to ease pain, allow stone to pass $1.

Savings to insurance $14,999.

Stone is gone. Medicine worked.

Problem eventually occurs is your logic for why you wouldn't give someone hypertension medicine. You're a cold fellow. I agree that there needs to be some logic but the majority of medicine does improve quality of life. If you think taking a knife to someone is preferrable to taking a pill where possible, you are blind man.

Sorry, I don't have time to do a detailed breakdown for someone who will not accept it. And sorry the media won't or can't help with such an analysis. So, I have to believe that Delay, Bush, Frist, my gut (and lying eyes) are right or Hillary, Ted Kennedy, or CNN are right.

I wish someone would do a real analysis and report the truth but until then, I know who I believe.