The Cost of Ignoring Sleep Apnea

Name: The Cost of Ignoring Sleep Apnea
Uploaded: 2025-08-07T16:01:05+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short spoken segment arguing that sleep apnea should be actively treated and screened for. The speaker criticizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force…

7 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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Short spoken segment arguing that sleep apnea should be actively treated and screened for. The speaker criticizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation against routine screening, calls it ‘absurd’, and suggests that while it saves insurers money short-term, treating sleep apnea reduces long-term healthcare costs.

What have we learned since then? Well, we should be sleeping. Treating sleep apnea. You should be treating it now. What's interesting is that health insurance companies go by a consensus called the United States Preventative Health Care Task Force. This is a non governmental organization paid for by the government that specifically says we should not routinely screen for sleep apnea. I think that's an absurd recommendation, but it does save health insurance companies money in the short term. We know in the long term, if you treat sleep apnea, you have less health care costs because you're healthier.