At 10:53 PM Friday 7/13/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: >On 14/07/2007, at 4:04 AM, Dan Minette wrote: > > >> > > > >> That assumes you keep providing care the way you do. > >> > >> Increase preventative medicine and primary nursing, and you reduce > >> other healthcare threefold. > > > > How? > >...because hospital stays reduce and recovery times increase. Good >prevention and primary treatment is the most effective way of >maximising returns on healthcare investment.
The contrarian in me sometimes wonders how much will indeed be saved by so-called "preventative medicine" for the major serious chronic conditions, because I'm sure most of us can think of people we know who had heart attacks or were diagnosed with diabetes or something like that who had none of the known "risk factors" for the disease prior to the time it hit, as well as the cliche grandfather who smoked like a chimney and drank until he was killed when he was hit by a bus leaving a brothel one night when he was in his 90s . . . and of course how much "preventative medicine" will be used as a justification for further regulations on the average person's life . . . (I get a laugh when I can spare the air from being diagnosed with "chronic bronchitis" because that has traditionally been a euphemism for "smoker's cough" and I never smoked a day in my life.) > > 'm not sure you have an adequate picture of the US system and how it > > works for the average person who works for a big company. It works fine as long as neither you or any of your family members who are on your insurance get sick or injured . . . :P -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
