ObamaCare and Cost Reduction

We should always attempt to prevent illness. But prevention may actually increase costs not reduce them. So, that spending must be cost-effective over the years.

In an Aug.7, 2009 letter to Rep. Nathan Deal, Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf’s aide, said: "Researchers who have examined the effects of preventive care, generally find that the added costs of widespread use of preventive services tend to exceed the savings from averted illness."

"It is usually necessary to provide preventive care to many patients, most of whom would not have suffered that illness anyway." This costs money that would not have been spent.

The study comes directly from the respected Congressional Budget Office. And it refutes the Obama Administration’s claim for savings that will flow from ObamaCare. (See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)