May 24 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Partnership for Prevention President and CEO Robert Gould writes: "If given the choice to spread prevention money around or to concentrate it to make a profound, historic and measurable impact, what would you do?
That's the question raised by the new health law. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius must soon respond to a congressional mandate to spend millions of dollars on a potentially endless array of worthy projects, ranging from bike trails and community gardens to local public health departments and obesity prevention" (5/20). Read entire column.
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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