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To: Sherman Logan
“May save the hospital money, but how does it save the country money?”

They will spout the ill-informed mantra of the left who think that you can prevent hospitalizations by ‘preventative medicine’. I don't have the time to point out the stupidity in that belief right now, but it is nonetheless stupid.

62 posted on 11/22/2012 6:31:27 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

My personal favorite is the claim that tobacco companies cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars because of the diseases they cause.

If you actually run the numbers, people dying early from cancer or heart disease saves the country a LOT of money. What is really expensive to society is those people who live to an advanced age, consuming a great deal of health care in their final decades.


73 posted on 11/22/2012 6:40:23 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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