Healthcare: Prevention efforts can be costly
Friday, December 25, 2009 - 16:28
in Health & Medicine
Stopping disease before it starts may be a noble goal, but don't count on such a strategy to save money. Preventive healthcare has been touted by politicians as a sure-fire method to slash healthcare costs by saving on future treatment expenses. And it's easy to believe them -- surely, we reason, it's better to treat high cholesterol before it turns into a heart...