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DrTonyTiger t1_j7ggio8 wrote

Reply to comment by InTheEndEntropyWins in Analysis showed that 65.6% of women who took extra Vitamin D gave birth naturally. The study analysed results from the MAVIDOS trial which involved 965 women being randomly allocated an extra 1,000 International Units (IU) per day of vitamin D during their pregnancy or a placebo. by Wagamaga

"Associated with a slightly increased likelihood of natural delivery."

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j7gust9 wrote

I don’t think that much of a change, if the correlation is good, would be considered slight. In a public health care system it could financially represent billions in saving.

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aradil t1_j7h0td3 wrote

I know you just threw out a number there, but if we’re talking single digit billions, that’s such a small percentage of health care dollars that it would barely register.

If the average person in the US costs $13k a year in health care, scaled down to the individually, billions of dollars would be like… tens of dollars per person of that $13k.

The US spends trillions of dollars a year on healthcare.

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j7h1ic9 wrote

Yeah, I also said a Public system. The United States could get down to 4-5k per year just by switching to a single payer system.

After that it very much matters how you manage resources.

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aradil t1_j7h26d8 wrote

My point was that that dollar amount is meaningless without context of how much is being spent.

I also don’t think it would save billions of dollars in, say, Canada, which would still be only a modest couple of percentage of points of savings.

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