As someone who also works in this environment, I must say I agree. This system needs to have another approach, one where prevention is the most important matter. Often the doctors are teached how to deal with a person that has a disease, but dedicate little to no time in helping them to avoid that people gets sick. And this has many benefits, from wherever point of view you see it.

It has the obvious benefits for the person who doesn't have to suffer an illness that could deteriorate their quality of life. And we all know that being healthy helps you to be more focused and productive. Also, as you already mentioned, it helps them to save money that in the case of chronic diseases or grave illness, could be a great amount of it. Besides, there are places where the access to medicaments it's very unequal and they have to resort to unusual ways to access to them or when it's very difficult, they don't purchase them at all. And in some cases, this is the reason of why some illness become chronic.

Nonetheless, the Health System could take advantage of this, too. I'm going to give my opinion based in how is it in my country (Venezuela), where at the moment, we're struggling to be able to assist the amount of people that visits the medical centers day by day. If we would focus more in promoting healthy life styles and regular visits to the doctors, the amount of emergencies would be lesser and the way the doctors could take care of them would definitely be more efficient.

It's a win-win situation, even when I'm sure some pharmaceutical companies would not agree with me. Anyway, I believe prevention is the future of medicine.

Thanks for sharing!