Social spending saves lives, saves money

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Fri, 2011-08-05 22:16

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Doug

Social spending saves lives, saves money

The NBER study–like the Columbia University study and the CDC model–attaches some numbers to what doctors and nurses see every day: the value of social protections for health, and the heavy risks that social realities bear on the ill. What they also highlight, however, is just how out-of-touch mainstream medical research seems to be from the daily problems facing the poor: while we focus on new genetics and the most expensive medical innovations, the real “bang for the buck” appears to be at the neighborhood and political level, not just in molecular biology.

It seems that interventions to improve the social determinants of health can in part pay for themselves.

Fri, 2011-08-05 22:27

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Freedom 55

Exactly. So can I get my Special Diet Allowance back, Dalton?