A long view on Health Care: Prevention

How much longer until the medical community wakes up to the many medical and economical benefits of prevention? For now, this shortened interview in the NYTimes with Dana Goldman might offer a ray of hope. Goldman, director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and founding editor of the Forum for Health Economics and Policy, makes the point that “if we reimbursed on the basis of preventing disease rather than treating it, the world would be different.”

In talking more about prevention, he adds “We should invest where we make our highest returns. We should put our money wherever there is a very high positive return, and where there isn’t a high positive return, we should think hard about investing.” As it is now, our current system should be more aptly referred to as Disease care, not Health care.

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