KevinMD January 21, 2026
We repeat the phrase “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” as if it were a folksy reminder to eat better or get a flu shot. But taken seriously, it is not a medical cliché. It is an economic law. And it exposes a devastating flaw in how modern societies choose to spend money.
Prevention is not the opposite of cure. Cure is essential, lifesaving, and often extraordinary. The problem is not cure itself; it is the staggering volume of preventable crisis our systems are forced to cure because we refuse to invest upstream. We have built a civilization that systematically underfunds prevention and then expresses shock at the cost of the consequences.
Nowhere is this clearer...
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