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Volume 358:661-663 February 14, 2008 Number 7 Next

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With health care once again a leading issue in a presidential race, candidates have offered plans for controlling spiraling costs while enhancing the quality of care. A popular component of such plans involves greater promotion of preventive health measures. The first element in Hillary Clinton's plan is to "focus on prevention: wellness not sickness." John Edwards has stated that "study after study shows that primary and preventive care greatly reduces future health care costs, as well as increasing patients' health." Mike Huckabee has said that a focus on prevention "would save countless lives, pain and suffering by the victims of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Cohen is a research associate professor of medicine and Dr. Neumann a professor of medicine and the director at the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts–New England Medical Center, Boston; Dr. Weinstein is a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

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