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If expenditures on medical services are less effective in reducing mortality rates than are changes in lifestyle behavior, why does the U.S. continue to spend an increasing portion of its resources on medical care? Feel free to draw upon your own experiences as well as the Library or other resources to answer this question

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This solution examines some reasons why the U.S. spends more money on treating medical conditions than initiatives to help prevent those same conditions.

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You have asked for some reasons why the U.S. spends more money on treating medical conditions than initiatives to help prevent those same conditions.

The simplest answer here is that treatment of illness is much more easily measured than prevention. How can you measure something that never happened? Promoting healthier lifestyles costs a lot and the benefits are not easily seen. It would take many years before the healthcare system would see a significant reduction in preventable illnesses. From the government's point of view, in the here and now, you will still have to pay for the treatment AND for the prevention initiatives that won't see any results or benefits until many years down the road. Unfortunately, the way current government is set up, they can only see into the future as far as their election term lasts, 4-8 years.

Any healthcare professional will tell you that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, the lack of concrete ways of measuring the effectiveness of ...

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