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Originally Posted by Osem
The loved ones can't but the bean counters do for obvious reasons. Of course this treatment could save lots of money in the longer term but long-termism doesn't seem to be much of a feature of modern society sadly.
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Whilst I can see short termism is more tempting to the private sector as repeat business is more profitable, where value for money is concerned even the "bean counters" in the NHS have to embrace therapies that do have high short term costs as the "opportunity cost" of not adopting these new treatments will lead to further reductions in the number and scope of treatments available to new patients given the need to restrain the growth in the NHS budgets.