Challenges to the new U.S. health reform law will come from all sides in the next few years, according to health advocates, but the goal of the public health community should be to keep the focus on the need for prevention.
“The next two years are going to be very hard for us in public health,” APHA outgoing President Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH, told more than 400 attendees of APHA’s November Summit on Health Reform, held at the start of the Association’s 138th Annual Meeting.
“People will be trying to push prevention and prevention funding over into the background,” Nevarez said. “We need to make sure we are able to precisely communicate why this is important for our country.”
The law, known as the Affordable Care Act, will expand coverage to 32 million additional people by 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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