Health care vs. sick care: Why prevention is essential to payment reform
By Thomas M. Menino and Paula Johnson
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April 02, 2012
Massachusetts could save billions in health care costs over the next decade by investing in prevention measures that are often cheaper and more effective than medical treatment.
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The mayor says: "If we created the conditions to make it possible for people to take better care of themselves..."
What absurd goo-goo mumbo jumbo. We've built bike trails at a million dollars a mile. But the people that run and walk on them (few seem to bike on them, strangely) are the same people that used to run and walk on the streets. We've preached endlessly about the risks of smoking, outlawed it almost everywhere, and raised taxes on tobacco multiple times (so I'm told; I am a reforming smoker). So what condition related to smoking would you like to change next, Mr. Menino? We've cluttered up menus and lunch counter signs with calorie counts and taken Coke out of vending machines. Shall we go back to hunting (solving the cat/coyote problem) and gathering? The article contains absolutely no suggestion on what to do with the money the government cut. Other than spend it.
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The mayor says: "If we created the conditions to make it possible for people to take better care of themselves..." What absurd goo-goo mumbo jumbo. We've built bike trails at a million dollars a mile. But the people that run and walk on them (few seem to bike on them, strangely) are the same people that used to run and walk on the streets. We've preached endlessly about the risks of smoking, outlawed it almost everywhere, and raised taxes on tobacco multiple times (so I'm told; I am a reforming smoker). So what condition related to smoking would you like to change next, Mr. Menino? We've cluttered up menus and lunch counter signs with calorie counts and taken Coke out of vending machines. Shall we go back to hunting (solving the cat/coyote problem) and gathering? The article contains absolutely no suggestion on what to do with the money the government cut. Other than spend it.