[nickff]

>"I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstrated again and again, but it's somehow still a political football."

I am aware of a number of studies which looked for a negative correlation between preventative care spending and overall healthcare spending, but all (of which I am aware) failed to find it.

[rightbyte]

Preventive care and good founding probably overshoots the point of very diminishing returns by alot so that should not be too suprising. Correlation is linear.