Comments on: Does Prevention Reduce Costs? http://wallstreetpit.com/9314-does-prevention-reduce-reduce-overall-health-spending Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:13:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hal Horvath http://wallstreetpit.com/9314-does-prevention-reduce-reduce-overall-health-spending#comment-51599 Hal Horvath Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:38:41 +0000 http://wallstreetpit.com/?p=9314#comment-51599 The CBO letter is oddly edited to reach this conclusion, but... if you read it exhaustively you find out that Preventive Care could be cost-savings (even in the narrow sense of medical costs alone)! ! So a correct headline would have to read something like: CBO Says Preventive Care Could Raise Costs, Or Lower Costs see here for more detail: http://findingourdream.blogspot.com/2009/08/curious-case-of-misleading-cbo-letter.html The CBO letter is oddly edited to reach this conclusion, but…

if you read it exhaustively you find out that Preventive Care could be cost-savings (even in the narrow sense of medical costs alone)!

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So a correct headline would have to read something like:

CBO Says Preventive Care Could Raise Costs, Or Lower Costs

see here for more detail:

http://findingourdream.blogspot.com/2009/08/curious-case-of-misleading-cbo-letter.html

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