What's the single most important reason for Obama wanting to dramatically alter our health care delivery system?
To make it more affordable.
Problem is, every remedy the guy has come up with has proven to either make things worse or be ineffectual. In that latter category, we place this:
Study Raises Questions About Cost Savings From Preventive CareWell, if it's not going to save money, why do it, you ask? Welcome to our side of the debate, my friend.
By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post Staff Writer
Preventive services for the chronically ill may reduce health-care costs, but they are unlikely to generate the kind of fantastic savings that President Obama and other Democrats have said could help pay for an overhaul of the nation's health system, according to a study being published Tuesday.
Using data from long-standing clinical trials, researchers projected the cost of caring for people with Type 2 diabetes as they progress from diagnosis to various complications and death. Enrolling federally-insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost the government $1,024 per person per year -- money that largely would be recovered after 25 years through lower spending on dialysis, kidney transplants, amputations and other forms of treatment, the study found.
However, except for the youngest diabetics, the additional services would add to overall health spending, not decrease it, the study shows. [link]
5 comments:
As usual you cite a study on a specific issue, but then go above and beyond trying to make it fit your argument.
"except for the youngest diabetics"
But here is what you sorely missed... if preventative care were instituted, it may cost a little more for a short time, but in the long term it would actually lower costs.
Why do you take a page from the Glenn Beck playbook and try to scare your readers?
Drew
That's horse manure, Baggy Bob. This study and others have demonstrated the ineffectiveness of preventive care. The record is available. Look at the Kennedy inspired HMO's. Of course, your beloved Fuhrer may be able to force people into preventive care. If it doesn't work again, execute them. Heil Obama-ayers.
WD: "Kennedy inspired HMO". Are you the only person that doesn't know about Richard Nixon and his embrace of Kaiser Permanente?
WD,
Did you actually read the whole article, or the just the misleading quote taken from the story?
Drew
droobie, I read the whole article and others related to Obama-ayers latest lies about saving money with preventive health care. HMO's regardless who else believed in them were one of the "compromises" heartily endorsed by that Kennedy creature who recently excoriated them in favor of his socialist/fascist National Health.
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