Originally Posted by Manx

Universal healthcare is in the perfect position to promote preventative care, for the very reason that it does not desire profits so it desires lower costs. The surest method to lower costs is to spend small amounts of money over decades to prevent 50 year old, heavily overweight, cancer and heart attack patients. It is cheaper to spend $1000 a year to prevent a single 50 year old from requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars in health care costs for bypass surgery.