On the recordJune 21, 2004
For well over a decade, I have spoken out about the need to fundamentally reorient health care in America, reorient it toward prevention and wellness and self-care. When it comes to helping people stay healthy in the first place, we have very little in the way of help or incentives or information. In fact, I have long said we do not have a health care system here in America, we have a sick care system. It is costing us dearly both in terms of health care costs and premature deaths. This is not to say we have not made any progress in the recent past. In the last decade, we have taken some steps toward fixing this major flaw. We have expanded coverage of cancer screenings, we have increased childhood immunization rates, we have expanded prenatal care, and we have more aggressively gone after the promotion of tobacco to children.
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