Medicare Costs Can Be Reduced Through Preventive Care, Opinion Piece States

Physician John Knowles in 1975 wrote a book identifying the lack of emphasis on preventive care as a shortcoming of the U.S. health care system, and since then, “the shift toward prevention and detection has been salutary but insufficient,” Robert Goldberg, vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, writes in a

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on May 15th, 2008