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> Still: This is like saying home insurance is a bad deal because on average the insurance companies make money. Screening is an insurance policy (not a free one, to be sure) against a catastrophic outcome.

I'd say this depends on the nature of the diffuse negative effects you mention - if it's car accidents on the way to the doctor's office that's one thing, but if it's people dying during surgery they actually didn't need that's another