Senator Harkin lays out the game plan that will win in univeral health care.. no argument can stand [View All]

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against it. Preventive care will lower all our medical cost in the future. I am pulling out one paragraph that if those stats are 100% accurate, should be one the TV every day.. and repeated incessantly into the ear of the media and thrown at the right wing who do not want health care coverage for everyone


"Consider this: Right now, some 75 percent of health care costs are accounted for by heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity. What these five diseases and conditions have in common is that they are largely preventable and even reversible by changes in nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090625/ts_ynews/ynews_ts408