Think preventive medicine will save money? Think again

Reading the title, I equated preventative medicine with public health work, but reading the article it seems that this isn't what they meant.<p>I'm not particularly surprised that the kind of treatments and screenings that they're talking about here are not cost-effective, they mostly seem to describe giving extra drugs to healthy middle class people for no particular reason.

The article says that it won't save billions, but will only save 0.2%... but 0.2% of the 2.7 trillion they mention is still almost 5 billion. Obviously a biased article.

In addition to what has been pointed out about money -<p>Shooting poor people like horses and dumping their bodies in ditches when they get sick would save a great deal of money (ammunition costs pennies), but it doesn't mean it's the right way.