That is very true.

I urge you to increase stable funding and incentives for both community-based programs and clinical preventive services.

What we are trying to do, and I think you will see immediately in this stimulus package--by the way, a significant increase in funding for the National Health Service Corps.

I have got a new idea. That is to marry the public health system with our community health centers.

I have been thinking.

I can tell you in my experience in Iowa, I have a number of cases of primary care doctors...

Now every school in America has developed a wellness policy. The problem is I wanted it to be a wellness policy based upon the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine. I lost that. I am coming back this year.

An important first step is being taken now by Congress and the administration under your leadership, Senator Harkin, to increase the investment in prevention in the Economic Recovery and Investment Act.

Senator Harkin, I know you're familiar with the program, and that you visited the Oak Street Middle School in Iowa this fall to see the changes, big and small, that the school has made through that program.

Now more than ever, we have the opportunity for comprehensive, meaningful health reform, and we must take bold steps where we have been timid in our policies to protect and preserve health, to rebuild what we have let crumble in public…

I do not have a primary care doctor.

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About 63 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed, who want to work and could work, but they are unemployed--63 percent.

As a nation, we are faced with the daunting task of stabilizing and reversing this costly epidemic.

We can really make prevention and wellness the centerpiece of our health care reform, so people in America start thinking about it.

It's time to make them the centerpiece of that conversation, not an asterisk, not a footnote, but the centerpiece of health care reform.

I tried in the last transportation bill, I offered an amendment that said that any entity that gets Federal money through transportation for streets and roads and things like that had to incorporate in their planning and architecture bike…

the final push for reform must come from the Federal Government.