truly preventive care, I think, lies further back upstream. Diet, exercise, meditation, yoga, psychosocial factors, to list just a few. a lot of this implicates action in realms where no one is making much money (aside from education, initial instruction, say). OR areas where some parties currently making very big money may stand to lose. See, just as an instance, today’s NYT, front page: “About 30% of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet, according to new research.”

gizmos in our Under Armour that interface with our smartphones are probably the wrong tack…

I may be missing something but the related comments by the AMA article and Manning et al seem to very much miss the point and remind me more of the comment of Ebenezer Scrooge re the poor of his day, something along the lines of, “…well they better hurry up and die and reduce the surplus population.”

thanks for the great article – these are important issues that our culture needs to delineate and come to grips with. we all need to give this stuff our attention.