CBO Doubts Aside, Wellness And Prevention Look Strong In Health Reform
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Under CBO's budget scorekeeping rules, prevention and wellness activities do not produce sufficiently demonstrable and quantifiable savings in the near term to qualify as offsets to appropriations, but a general cost-benefit analysis more accurately reflects the costs and benefits of interventions, experts say.
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