I agree with the concept and idea expressed; paying for prevention is good and wise and we do far to little of it.
I don't like the title. I can't believe it is really $100. Even if the scan is $100 that doesn't fix things itself. There is the cost of whatever the treatment is etc. There are likely added expense from false positives (or similar idea), where it flags someone as needing more testing, new interventions when in fact they didn't...
I wish the article was more detailed on those costs (or at least not claim the cost is $100 when it is much more in reality, unless I am wrong about that and the fixes are free somehow). It feels like a biased promotion of this thing we like and/or have a financial interest in so lets make exaggerated claims that hopefully people won't notice.
Yeah the headline is a bit glib and misleading. But the point still stands. Statins are dirt cheap too.
It is $100 if nothing is wrong. If something is found correcting it is cheaper than a heart attack. Statins are not expensive and knowing how bad things are leads to how aggressive you perscribe them.