re: #11 darthstar

I agree with Gus…it’s bullshit. Saving lives is saving money, because preventive care prevents people from having to go to the ER.

And Politifact can suck my little Irish dick.

Wow it looks like fact checking is only welcome when it supports Obama. That is unexpected around here, I guess the truth falls to partisanship AGAIN.
Shit.

How about the New England Journal Of Medicine? That suit u=you better or is this just auto object for fear Obama may lose if these kinds of things are aired out?

””Sweeping statements about the cost-saving potential of prevention, however, are overreaching. Studies have concluded that preventing illness can in some cases save money but in other cases can add to health care costs.3 For example, screening costs will exceed the savings from avoided treatment in cases in which only a very small fraction of the population would have become ill in the absence of preventive measures. Preventive measures that do not save money may or may not represent cost-effective care (i.e., good value for the resources expended). Whether any preventive measure saves money or is a reasonable investment despite adding to costs depends entirely on the particular intervention and the specific population in question. For example, drugs used to treat high cholesterol yield much greater value for the money if the targeted population is at high risk for coronary heart disease, and the efficiency of cancer screening can depend heavily on both the frequency of the screening and the level of cancer risk in the screened population.”