How will health care reform effect doctors

bluedevilmike
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:27:29 +0000

E.g. anything that the medical community can do to prevent drugs use or obesity. We might get some savings from those folks who stop doing drugs or who lose weight, but the number of interventions you have to do to stop just one person means that there are no cost savings.

That’s not to say that preventive care isn’t a good idea. Just that we can’t expect to SAVE money by doing it.