Another cost that the NEJM study completely skips over and does not address, funeral expenses. So when they say preventative care saves lives, not money, they stop counting the monetary cost at the moment of death. They don’t factor in the cost of the medical examiner to society, or the funeral home, cremation or burial expenses to the family, all of which are absolutely devastating in the modern era. It’s like they think untimely death is free, and doesn’t carry it’s own health care and continuing financial consequences for the survivors.