Yeah, when you have medicine for profit, it is actually more profitable to keep people sick than to make them well. Tht is why we spend more on medicine in this country per capita than any other country in the world, yet rate pretty low in average health.

How much is saved would depend on how fr it is taken. How much of the medicine for profit model do we want to keep? I'd do away with medicine for profit entirely.

In some European countries doctors are paid by how healthy they keep their patients, instead of only getting paid when they are sick. Ihave felt on more than one occassion that return visits to the doctor had more to do with their making more money on another visit than it did about keeping me healthy

Under the present system in the U.S., when you are cured the doctor stops making money. So where is the incentive to get you well?