Monday, July 06, 2009
"Preventive Care Is a Sick Idea"
This goes against the prevailing idea; however, the writer does make some interesting points...
David HarsanyiDavid Harsanyi writes about the "preventative care racket" at Townhall.com:
"According to studies, preventive medicine thwarts little, though it does mean early diagnoses for relatively harmless ailments -- and treatments for them.
As H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy, contends: 'Recent expansions in the definitions of diabetes, high cholesterol and osteoporosis defined millions more as suddenly needing therapy. A new definition of 'abnormal bone density' … turned 6.8 million American women into osteoporosis patients literally overnight.'"
