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Chronic Disease
National Partnership Releases Principles for Meaningful Health Reform
February 14th, 2009
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) today urged President Obama and Congress to make health reform a top priority, outlining the critical components of reform efforts. Topping its list of "Principles for Meaningful Health Reform," the PFCD urged leaders to realign incentives in the health care system to encourage chronic disease prevention and management. "As our country faces an obesity epidemic and the worst economic downturn in a generation, effectively preventing and managing chronic disease is no longer simply an ideal - it is a national imperative," said Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., Executive Director of PFCD, and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-02-14)
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