DUH?:

Congressional Budget Expert Says Preventive Care Will Raise -- Not Cut -- Costs (Jake Tapper, August 09, 2009, ABC: Political Punch)

In yet more disappointing news for Democrats pushing for health care reform, Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, offered a skeptical view Friday of the cost savings that could result from preventive care -- an area that President Obama and congressional Democrats repeatedly had emphasized as a way health care reform would be less expensive in the long term.

"Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall," Elmendorf wrote.

So providing care to the healthy adds costs? Crazy, huh?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 9, 2009 9:00 AM