Prevention Wellness

This reform also includes creating task forces on Clinical Preventative Services and Community Preventative Services to develop, update, and disseminate evidence-based recommendations on the use of clinical and community prevention services.

Grants will assist in improving the health of our nation’s workforce and will reduce employer health care costs. Participating employers must offer the programs to all employees and cannot mandate participation nor use participation as a condition to receive any financial incentive.

Prevention and wellness measures of the bill include:

1. Expansion of Community Health Centers;
2. Prohibition of cost-sharing for preventive services;
3. Creation of community-based programs to deliver prevention and wellness services;
4. A focus on community-based programs and new data collection efforts to better identify and address racial, ethnic, regional, and other health disparities;
5. Funds to strengthen state, local, tribal and territorial public health departments and programs
   

Lorria Trujillo

Information cited from:

House Committees on Ways, Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor (December 4, 2009). Affordable Health Care for America Act: Detailed Summary. Retrieved from http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/health_care/hr3962_DETAILEDSUMMARY.pdf.

Kaiser Family Foundation (October 15, 2009). Health Care Reform Proposals. Retrieved from http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/healthreform_tri_full.pdf.