http://www.personal-finances-blog.com/insurance/health-insurance-whats-coming.html Personal Finance tips, information, and resources. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.personal-finances-blog.com/insurance/health-insurance-whats-coming.html#comment-13077 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:02:02 +0000 http://www.personal-finances-blog.com/insurance/health-insurance-whats-coming.html#comment-13077 I agree with you, but think that the #1 thing we can change is from a treatment based healthcare system to a preventative healthcare system - one in which we focus on avoiding illness in the first place. The drug companies charge a lot, as well as the hospitals, but 90% of the time we could have caught the problem much earlier than that and prevented it for 1/1000 of the cost of treatment. I agree with you, but think that the #1 thing we can change is from a treatment based healthcare system to a preventative healthcare system - one in which we focus on avoiding illness in the first place. The drug companies charge a lot, as well as the hospitals, but 90% of the time we could have caught the problem much earlier than that and prevented it for 1/1000 of the cost of treatment.

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