Disease prevention often costs more than it saves

Another really good reason not to pay for fat person rescue.

"When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to hire a personal lifestyle coach to help her lose weight and prevent diabetes. Suppose that the coaching works for Mrs. Jones, and she is spared diabetes and all the resulting health bills.

But research shows that for every person like Mrs. Jones, six other people just like her get nothing out of such a program. They either don't lose weight or get diabetes anyway or wouldn't have developed it in the first place. The yearly cost of the prevention program for those six people: $5,400.

That's probably more than Mrs. Jones' health bills from diabetes would have amounted to.

There goes your pound of cure.

The truth is, shockingly few prevention efforts actually save the health care system money overall, despite claims by the president and some in Congress."

Let the fat get what they have eaten so hard to develop and don't pay for that, either.

Then we will see real change.

BTW, it is of some note that the "prevention" strategies cited by supporters in the article are oftentimes rescue efforts.

Clearly, their thinking is unclear.

In more ways than one.