Prevention and Wellness: Who is Responsible?

Washington, D.C, June 21, 2011. At a Capitol Hill staffer briefing, Alieta Eck, MD and Twila Brase, RN discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA) impact on the patient-doctor relationship, individual privacy, patient care, the employer-employee relationship, and the future of medicine as PPACA attempts to shift responsibility for prevention and wellness from individuals to practitioners and employers.

The Obama administration declared June 2011 to be the first-ever Prevention and Wellness Month. This briefing provides viewers with information on the broad prevention and wellness provisions enacted in PPACA and engage them to consider who should be held responsible for preventing illness and keeping patients well.

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• PPACA
• prevention
• wellness
• Alieta Eck
• Twila Brase
• Obamacare