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[smarterer]

Vascepa will be exceedingly cost effective. Cost saving? Quite unlikely.

I'm confident you're correct, rfj. I recall another student at the Kennedy School undertaking an analysis on the cost-savings of different health care interventions that we might pay for as a society. Measures that people think of as saving tons of money--smoking cessation, for example--don't pencil out. Many adult-onset interventions don't pencil out, because they allow us to live longer in retirement, spending society's wealth on our Social Security and medicare/medicaid.

Spending on kids pays off well; you don't want to invest in kids and have them depart before they start paying taxes.

There can be savings if you have a better treatment that allows someone who would otherwise be disabled and need more expensive care to be healthier and need less or no care as a consequence.