Common sense tells us an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Treating illnesses can get expensive quite fast; like the other poster noted, ERs are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
On the other hand, preventive care is what it means since you know how to keep a patient healthy.
The point you miss isn’t how much we should spend on health care; its where we should spend the money that does the most good.
Our health care system is set up in a way where people are treated after the fact and not before and it literally wastes money up the wazoo.
That’s not a classic argument for Cloward-Piven chaos; on the contrary, its an argument for considered choices and spending scarce money to the greatest benefit of society.
It should be a persuasive argument for utilizing doctors’ talents in a cost-effective and compassionate manner.
That's probably the second most common argument for spending ever increasing amounts on the idle, the indolent, the professional surfers who increasing milk the diminishing number of net taxpaying working, responsible working Americans.
In a rational universe, a viable economy can't tolerate 50% of its population defined as "helpless needy."
If the rest of us can see the obvious scamming of the activists, who themselves are non-productive parasites (in and out of government,) why can't you?
Taking that "compassionate" path is the road to certain national economic bankruptcy and social collapse.
Then everybody loses.
$20,000,000,000,000 deficit spending in the last 12 years isn't enough of a red flag?