HEALTH REFORM TALKING POINTS

• Health reform offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve the lives of all Americans.  With health reform we can keep Americans healthier and free American businesses and families from the stress and financial burden associated with skyrocketing health care costs.

• There’s nothing mysterious about “community prevention.”  Community prevention is about the efforts in our community that improve health, safety, and equity.

• Investment in community prevention reduces unnecessary healthcare costs.  This can save communities, states, and the federal government a significant amount of money.

• Community prevention can change our “sick care” system into a true health care system.  Without prevention, health reform will fail.

• Community health promotion can help to reduce health inequities between racial and ethnic groups and give every person who lives here, regardless of color or nationality, more equitable opportunities to live healthy lives.