Health Affairs April 19, 2024
The United States is at a crossroads. We must choose between a future that entails poorer health outcomes, shorter lifespans, and increased health spending, or a sustained effort at transforming our system into one that fosters prevention, improves health outcomes in every respect, and bends the health care cost curve.
Members of the president’s administration—most prominently Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Mandy Cohen—have recently called for an increased focus on prevention and linking public health and medicine. President Joe Biden’s 2025 budget request to Congress includes funding for public health capacity building as well as funding for programs to prevent infectious diseases. Notably, it calls for safety-net...
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