More hospitals or more Vitamin D – your choice

More hospitals or more vitamins?

Ontario Canada TroyMedia Feb 2017
“Apparently, Ontario would rather spend $8,700 to hospitalize a citizen [ for 5 days of flu] than $40 to test him for vitamin insufficiency”

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A few years ago most (all?) Canadian provinces decided to not pay for Vitamin D testing
Restriction on Vitamin D Testing have spread to several other countries.
See also Vitamin D Life

Tests for Vitamin D category listing has 141 items along with related searches

• VA showed increased vitamin D associated with lower health costs - Lancet May 2012
• How Alberta Canada restricts Vitamin D testing – May 2016
• France restricts payments for Vitamin D tests – Dec 2015
• Medicare now pays for just one vitamin D test , but 20 CT scans for smokers – Feb 2015
• Vitamin D testing in Australia before they shut it down – 42 percent retested – 2013
• 80 X increase in Vitamin D testing in Australia in a decade - June 2013
• Warning – Medicare will pay for just 1 vitamin D test PER LIFETIME (if not related to a few diseases)
• 6th Canadian province may stop paying for vitamin D testing – Sept 2010

Why are doctors reluctant to accept vitamin D

• Reason #10 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it
• Likewise, hospitals, drug companies, etc. would lose a lot of business

Increasing the vitamin D level of all Canadians to 40 ng would save 6 to 18 billion dollars a year – Nov 2016

Other

• Cost savings with Vitamin D category listing has 76 items along with related searches
• Dr. who got patients to vitamin D level of 80 ng Doctor visits dropped from 4 per year to 1 per year
• Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015