If preventative health care is really cost-effective, why doesn't Medicare cover it?

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Huggy

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*** SOME THINGS MEDICARE DOES NOT COVER ***

NO routine PREVENTATIVE CARE, including physical exams

NO DENTAL CARE. Medicare does not cover routine dental care or most dental procedures such as cleanings, fillings, tooth extractions or dentures.

NO routine eye exams and eyeglasses

NO hearing aids

Co-pays = 20-50% of all charges, AFTER you pay a deductible

Hospitalization Deductible = $1000+

SOURCE: EVERYWHERE
Joshua C

Thanks for yuor ignorant and wise-ass answer.
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At 65, what the HELL is there to prevent? At that point, the ravages of age have already taken hold. If Medicare covered people 45 and up, then you'd have twenty years to start prevention.

At 65, many of the things above have already occurred.
 
It's not. The CBO has analyzed this. I've linked to the letter they wrote to a Representative that discusses this.

Yes, if a person has routine preventative health care, and a disease is caught early, it can save a lot of money, and the life of that person.

But if you are an insurer and pay for thousands of preventative health care procedures and only find 1 or 2 conditions that fit the above model, it doesn't save the insurer anything.
 
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