http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/09/04/john-edwards-wants-your-body/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:49:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/09/04/john-edwards-wants-your-body/#comment-6297 Marc Brown Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:47:16 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/09/04/john-edwards-wants-your-body/#comment-6297 Well, you'll be pleased to know I go some way to agreeing with you, but only because screening well people is not based on evidence of effectiveness. However, the underlying problem of engaging people in preventive behaviour still exists, and should be a function of good primary care and health promotion, which you don't have. My wife flew back from Chicago today, and reports that Americans are fatter on average than ever. If you don't find a way of addressing this and other health time bombs all your market reforms will be even less effective, if that's possible. Well, you’ll be pleased to know I go some way to agreeing with you, but only because screening well people is not based on evidence of effectiveness. However, the underlying problem of engaging people in preventive behaviour still exists, and should be a function of good primary care and health promotion, which you don’t have. My wife flew back from Chicago today, and reports that Americans are fatter on average than ever. If you don’t find a way of addressing this and other health time bombs all your market reforms will be even less effective, if that’s possible.

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