[OldFriend]

Think about the costs of medicare and medicade if we practice no preventive medicine.

It's better to keep high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems under control rather than the alternative of hospitalization.

You can keep your head in the sand but you can't deny that an ounce of preventive care is better than the alternative.

FWIW, I don't think there should be any medicare or medicade, however, it's here and we need to address the issue of cost.

And frankly, ignoring the quality of life is not unimportant.

[Know your rights]

It's better to keep high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems under control rather than the alternative of hospitalization.

So why is, for example, Viagra covered?

And frankly, ignoring the quality of life is not unimportant.

Better "quality of life" does not "mitigate the spending down the line." Why should I pay for someone else's "quality of life?"

[Marxbites]

I disagree we need Govt to do anything for us other than protecting the rights we already had when it was created.

Is prevention the way - you bet it is. Should it be run by Govt? No way. There isn't a single thing that Govt can provide us that the private sector can't do quicker cheaper and better.

Individual responsibility is what the left has spent a century substituting for dependence on Govt. And ergo their political power at American's loss of economic freedom.