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Health Policy
MultiVu Video Feed: National Bipartisan Coalition Forms to Make Chronic Disease the Key Health Care Issue In 2008 Presidential Election
May 28th, 2007
Chronic disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and the greatest threat to the US health care system. That is why a bipartisan group of patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups, and health policy experts are coming together on May 15th to launch the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD), a coalition committed to making chronic disease the key health issue in the 2008 presidential election. The PFCD is led by former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona and Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., a former White House health policy advisor. They will be announcing the broad-based effort to change the way our nation approaches chronic...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-05-28)
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