Health care, not sick care

Abstract

Senator Tom Harkin announces his introduction of the HeLP (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) Act. This comprehensive legislation provides incentives to stimulate health promotion in workplace, school, and community settings, with specific programs for disabled people, food marketing, Medicare reimbursement for preventive services, and research on obesity, and creation of a National Health Promotion Trust Fund to pay for programs by penalties on tobacco companies that fail to cut smoking rates among children, ending federal subsidies for tobacco advertising, and closing other tax loopholes.