Lew Hodgett wrote:
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What I am saying is that a significant portion of the 6 and under
population are not receiving adequate preventative health care in
their formative years which leads to higher cost medicine in later
years.
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You're back to the same problem you didn't want to hear earlier--the
bulk of those are in that fix because of either sorry parenting or that
they're in the part of the society that isn't covered currently and
extending that care to them is going to cost more in additional services
than it can bring in.

I'd be surprised if it could be showed by tracking cohort studies that
most of that same population are the ones actually getting the very high
cost extensive care at or near EOL.

Either way, they're not the ones who will bring any resources into the
system to help defray expenses.

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