Cost-benefit of prevention heats up; salt reduction bypassed
You've all heard about one-armed economists (on the one hand.....on the other hand....). So it's hardly news that economists do not agree with a basic premise of Obamacare, namely, that "prevention" will save money. We did a blog post back in June when Time magazine featured the issue. Proponents responded last week when the New York Academy of Medicine released its Compendium of Proven Community-based Prevention Programs .
New York City has, of course, been waging war on salt in the city for a couple years now, so it's ironic that salt reduction is a glaring omission in the prevention policy recommendations.
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