>>>Billions of dollars spent worldwide on health-care planning, and it's "through a glass darkly"? Seriously?
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>Absolutely. Example: what does it cost to treat cancer. Bearing in mind that you *want* new treatments to appear that knock your planning back to square 1.

A good example of how "medical arts" practitioners - be it witch doctors, shamans or whatever-ologists can obfuscate something as simple as the application of a band aid or the clipping of toenails.
In one paragraph, you've created a murky black hole that can justify almost anything.