Preventative Services the Key to Lowering Costs?

According to the National Coalition of Health Care: “Experts agree that our health care system is riddled with inefficiencies, excessive administrative expenses, inflated prices, poor management, and inappropriate care, waste and fraud.” These problems get worse every year in the United States and this causes the continual increase in the price of health care.

If you go to this website: http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml, you can see how rising costs are affecting families:

1) National surveys show that the primary reason people are uninsured is the high cost of health insurance coverage.

2) About 1.5 million families lose their homes to foreclosure every year due to unaffordable medical costs.

One ideal option to control medical costs would be to offer more preventative services to all portions of the population. This is for the simple fact that performing heart surgery is much more expensive than having a health professional offer good dietary advice about making the heart healthier. In other words, much more government money should be allocated to preventing medical problems by educating the public on how to lead healthier lives.