<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span class="entry-title">Numbers show high cost of skipping your meds</span></div><div><span class="entry-title"><font size="3">Numbers show how skipping your meds can have serious health impact, financial consequences</font></span></div><div><span class="entry-title"><font size="3"></font></span> </div><div><span class="entry-title"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/numbers-show-high-cost-skipping-214621515.html"><font size="3">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/numbers-show-high-cost-skipping-214621515.html</font></a></span></div><div><span class="entry-title"><font size="3"></font></span> </div><div><span class="entry-title"><font size="3">"—Every dollar spent on medication decreases total health costs to patients, insurers and government health programs by about $10.10 for people with high blood pressure, by
$8.40 for congestive heart failure patients, by $6.70 for diabetics and by about $3.10 for patients with cholesterol disorders."</font></span></div><div><span class="entry-title"><font size="3"></font></span> </div><div><span class="entry-title"><font size="3">And what idiots would pass up $3.10 to $10.10 return on each $1 invested? The same <span id="misspell-2"><span>idiots</span></span> that pass up <span id="misspell-3"><span>universal</span></span> preventive health care. The same idiots that believe it is better to pay $10.10 of taxpayer dollars in medical treatment tomorrow than to a give the person the opportunity of insurance to spend $1 on medication today. But when your interests lie with the person who gets the $10.10, only then it becomes clear why denying them the insurance to get the medication is the <span id="misspell-4"><span>preferred action</span></span>. </font></span></div><div><span
class="entry-title"></span> </div><div><span class="entry-title">Donovan Arnold </span></div></div></body></html>