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An excuse for meddling

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Christopher Snowdon has a useful CAPX piece on the preventative healthcare myth.

‘Preventative’ healthcare is just an excuse for meddling in peoples’ lives

Patients have always been a problem for the NHS. If it wasn’t for the burden of people needing medical assistance, the system would work fine.

The health establishment has convinced itself that there would be less pressure on the NHS if people were healthier. This is widely believed and feels almost intuitive. As the Oxford Handbook of Health Economics drily notes, ‘it is frequently argued (but not by economists) that prevention will save expenditure on future treatment’. Economists are the exception because they have looked at the evidence and understand that while premature mortality can be prevented, mortality cannot. When people live longer they consume more healthcare, most of which is needed after retirement age, when they are taking more out of the tax pot than they put it.

Nevertheless, the myth that preventative health saves money persists. It acts as a handy distraction from the failings of the NHS and the inevitable costs that come from having an ageing population. It also gives paternalists an excuse for interfering in other people’s lives. Ask not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS.The whole piece is quite short and well worth reading. Yes, ‘preventative’ healthcare is just an excuse for meddling in peoples’ lives. It’s the meddling which seems to be important, not the healthcare. Meddling is where the meddler’s employment prospects lurk.


Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-excuse-for-meddling.html



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