From The Desk Of Fred Goldstein: If The Time For Prevention Has Come, Health Reform Must Follow

With all of the talk over the past few months about Health Reform, some very good ideas were lost in the shuffle. We all know of Ben Franklin’s statement “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, but have we really applied that to health care? Prevention in health care is an idea whose time has come , yet we allocate roughly 4% of our total health spend to it. There is clearly much more we can do as a country, employer and yes ourselves.
Through this blog we hope to touch on ideas that are relevant to all of these areas and others; such as how you can keep yourself healthy, how companies can develop a healthier, more productive workforce and lower their total cost of health, and what can be done by all of us as a society. There is much to do and really not much time, in fact the statistics are rather staggering, but more on that in the next post.