Except that if you're testing for a condition that only one person in a 1000 has, you've paid for needlessly testing 999 people to find that 1-in-a-1000 person.
How much does it cost to test those 999?
“Except that if you’re testing for a condition that only one person in a 1000 has, you’ve paid for needlessly testing 999 people to find that 1-in-a-1000 person.”
And how would you feel to be that 1-in-1000 person who doesn’t get tested and might die as a result?
That’s why they are called tests — to test and FIND OUT, whether people have a particular illness or are all right.
I suppose you are against testing for breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc — since it’s negative for most people who are being tested. Let’s just have those, whose cancer could be found early by testing just go off and die — or discover it way late and spend huge amounts of money treating them, when they could have been saved by less suffering and less costly medical procedures, if their cancer would have been found early.