CBO Says Preventive Care Costs More!
Surprise! Surprise! Another blow to healthcare reform. In an August 7, 2009 letter to the House Subcommittee on Health, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concludes:
"Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall."
"Researchers who have examined the effects of preventive care generally find that the added costs of wide-spread use of preventive services tend to exceed the savings of averted illness."
You can read the rest of the analysis in the link to the CBO letter.
That's right, Mike, that's why we have to measure every doctor's outcomes and costs. Then we have to pay doctors more if they produce better outcomes at lower costs. That is the reason for heahth care reform. This is how market based capitalism works. You have to know what you are getting and how much you are paying.
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Preventive care is the best care.Even It is expensive in shot term long term benefit of healthy person and Pt not suffering, added stress of being sick outways any expense for preventive care.