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by emorning3 392 days ago
This decision only makes sense it saves more lives than the number of lives that will be lost because of it.

It seems to me like it should totally be possible to do the math here and figure it out. Compute the lives saved and compute as many of the lives that will be lost. For instance, statins are a risk to pre-diabetics, and to children, and to etc...

There better be a very large difference. That's the bottom-line argument that I would have attempted to make.