Don't Bother with Supporting Preventive Care

So long, wishful thinking:

... Studies have shown that preventive care — be it cancer screening, smoking cessation or plain old checkups — usually ends up costing money.  It makes people healthier, but it’s not free.
“It’s a nice thing to think, and it seems like it should be true, but I don’t know of any evidence that preventive care actually saves money,”

I'm guilty of spreading this rumor myself, so, go and read the whole thing in The New York Times.

Via Marginal Revolution.