Truth-O-Meter: Statements on Health Care
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Posted by Fabrice FlorinReview
While it's a basically good article, some of its judgments are questionable. One example is Obama's statement about Clinton being willing to garnish wages. They take Clinton's statement regarding the enforcement mechanism as disproof. To me, if she says it might be that, that's willingness. Another example is the cost assessment of effectiveness of preventive care. Studies often measure only tertiary prevention, i.e., the person already has disease, often severe disease, and "preventive" measures, which may or may not be followed, do not prove to be cost effective. Primary prevention, often as little as suggesting that a person stop smoking, is more difficult to quantify, but the decrease in smoking after one sentence is definitely cost effective and not generally included in the data.
