Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
The purse of the patient often protracts his case.
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.
There's no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything.
Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
Infertility costs an average of about $16-20,000 per procedure, and you don't always get pregnant the first time. I had to go through it seven times. And adoption and surrogacy are not covered through insurance companies.
Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.
