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Re:GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up... by conanbatt on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:50PM (#19372871)
Since you specifically wanted me to answer about this topic: Preventative care has some nuance. Increased preventative services are not necessarily better, there is an actual ongoing debate about annual physicals in the medical community (http://time.com/5095920/annual-physical-exam/)

From an economic perspective, its not clear pushing for preventative will lower cost or increase quality. (many times it even has negative value, as reassuring a patient of being healthy when they aren't).

Fundamentally, if preventative cares are good people will naturally choose to invest in their own health. There is research showing that people are pretty good about healthcare utilization if they bear the cost (except poor peoeple)

Re:GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up... by arcticbull on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:59PM (#19373491)
You're absolutely right about that. Also with regards to increased frequency of tests; finding the inflection point between where the risk and adverse effects of false-positive tests out-weight the benefits of early detection. Point taken.