GOP Health Care Hearing: Prevention Through Healthy Behavior A Key to Health Care Reform

The Senate Republican Conference and the Republican Policy Committee held a hearing on Thursday, May 21, to discuss wellness and prevention through healthy behavior as a key to health care reform. Helping people lead healthier lives is central to controlling the cost of health care for everyone—not just the unhealthy. Largely manageable or preventable chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States and account for the vast majority of health care spending. This hearing explored solutions that can help keep Americans healthier and truly bend the cost curve in the right direction.

Witnesses included Governor Mike Huckabee, Dr. Andrew Baldwin, and Steve Burd, CEO of Safeway, Inc.

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• health care
• insurance
• prevention
• Mike Huckabee
• Andy Baldwin
• Steve Burd
• Safeway
• John Ensign
• Lamar Alexander
• John Cornyn
• John Thune
• Richard Burr

[RuggedTruth]

All this spending, stealing, and printing money is meant to crash the dollar in the end. These criminal actions have reached insanity, and are being done PURPOSELY TO BANKRUPT THIS COUNTRY. Robert Welch, founder of the John Birtch Society, predicted all of this in 1958 in a public speech, which you can find on youtube. Everything we, the civil intelligence sector(called conspiracy theorists by the dangerously ignorant) of the population, have said, has and is becoming reality.

[Sicj]

Dont go for GOP health crap.. They always find a way to freeze or lock up funds on any program run by the GOP if things arnt going well they are scrupulous on cutting things off and not making it work.

[mmayer83]

the two of you are both hopelessly incorrect with the information you are receiving haha

[philipkevin7]

what jobs are going to canada??? it is actually the opposite...there are more ppl from Canada coming here b/c the healthcare system is not working there...Obama's choice is not going to benefit any of us...it is just doesn't work and it just adds to the debt and makes us irresponsible with how we spend our money..

[sandmanhopes]

what I have seen the repubs want to take away our choice Obama wants to give choice to keep healthcare we have or have gov plan sad how repubs dont want us to have a choice and sad that more and more jobs going to canida do to healthcare will be hoping repubss are for the choice of the people