Obama today in New Hampshire:
And finally -- this is important -- we will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies -- (applause) -- because there's no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer and prostate cancer on the front end. That makes sense, it saves lives; it also saves money -- and we need to save money in this health care system.
Over the weekend the director of the Congressional Budget Office wrote that "the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall."