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CBO Expert Says Preventive Care Will Raise, Not Cut Costs

hypocritexposer

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Congressional Budget Expert Says Preventive Care Will Raise -- Not Cut -- Costs

August 09, 2009 9:27 AM

In yet more disappointing news for Democrats pushing for health care reform, Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, offered a skeptical view Friday of the cost savings that could result from preventive care -- an area that President Obama and congressional Democrats repeatedly had emphasized as a way health care reform would be less expensive in the long term.

Obviously successful preventive care can make Americans healthier and save lives. But, Elmendorf wrote, it may not save money as Democrats had been arguing.

"Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall," Elmendorf wrote. "That result may seem counterintuitive.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/congressional-budget-expert-says-preventive-care-will-raise-not-cut-costs.html
 
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But this is exactly opposite to what some of the major private industry folks that have introduced and had long term preventative care plans for their employees have actually found....They found a large reduction in their health care costs, insurance (if not self insuring, as some where), and the productivity of their workers...
One of the best examples is Safeway....
Also contrary to what the Medical Professionals testified to what long term - birth to death- prevention plans would reduce in long term costs...

I think the key words here are "long term"....
 
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Anonymous

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hypocritexposer said:
so now you believe the private industry over the Government?

Actually its believing real hard evidence over guesstimating...
 
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hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
so now you believe the private industry over the Government?

Actually its believing real hard evidence over guesstimating...

well I agree with you on that. The Government does guesstimates.

So why are you believing their guesstimates?

I'm not- I'm going by a compilation of what I heard the Medical Professionals, Insurance companies, Health Care Supplies and Pharmaceuticals Industry, Economists, Lawyers, Consumer Groups and individual consumers, Business's both big and small, etc., etc., etc. testify to during all the earlier working groups and later in the hearings (under oath)---- and believe that on the most part these bills were drawn up from that same evidence that I heard presented...
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
But this is exactly opposite to what some of the major private industry folks that have introduced and had long term preventative care plans for their employees have actually found....They found a large reduction in their health care costs, insurance (if not self insuring, as some where), and the productivity of their workers...
One of the best examples is Safeway....
Also contrary to what the Medical Professionals testified to what long term - birth to death- prevention plans would reduce in long term costs...

I think the key words here are "long term"....

The CBO is looking at the whole enchilada, not just preventative care.
 
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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
But this is exactly opposite to what some of the major private industry folks that have introduced and had long term preventative care plans for their employees have actually found....They found a large reduction in their health care costs, insurance (if not self insuring, as some where), and the productivity of their workers...
One of the best examples is Safeway....
Also contrary to what the Medical Professionals testified to what long term - birth to death- prevention plans would reduce in long term costs...

I think the key words here are "long term"....

The CBO is looking at the whole enchilada, not just preventative care.

Thats not what this article said- Did you read it?
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
But this is exactly opposite to what some of the major private industry folks that have introduced and had long term preventative care plans for their employees have actually found....They found a large reduction in their health care costs, insurance (if not self insuring, as some where), and the productivity of their workers...
One of the best examples is Safeway....
Also contrary to what the Medical Professionals testified to what long term - birth to death- prevention plans would reduce in long term costs...

I think the key words here are "long term"....

The CBO is looking at the whole enchilada, not just preventative care.

Thats not what this article said- Did you read it?

I read when the CBO first came out on Obamacare, and earned a trip for a scolding from the White House.
 
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