I'll give you an example. Two brothers in a family in their early twenties have long QT syndrome, a genetic heart disease, which means they could die very young from a heart attack. One brother is job hunting and the other brother isn't. One is tested for long QT and knows it is in his family. He has the gene, and he'll be on beta blockers for the rest of his life, and he'll be fine. The other brother decides not to get tested, because he's job hunting, and he doesn't want anybody to find out that this is in his family. Who wins when he's 35 years old and dies, leaving a family behind, when it could have been managed his whole life? Prevention is huge in saving health care dollars, but it's really about saving lives.
On November 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.