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”

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 VitaminDWiki

Tests for Vitamin D category listing has 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

  21 reasons why doctors are 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 – Grant Nov 2016

  Other

• Cost savings with Vitamin D category listing has 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