Support Rallies for Prevention $!

Last weekend I shared the potential for the Prevention & Public Health Fund (which funds our Community Transformation Grant) to be cut by the current Congressional Super-Committee... as with any challenge, our partners are taking the opportunity to come out strong for prevention!

Find their inspiring words below.

Julian Pecquet with The Hill:

"Public health advocates immediately pushed back Thursday after a Democratic proposal to slash the healthcare law's Prevention and Public Health Fund became public."

Harold Pollack in the New Republic:

"There is a certain irony that preventive measures, which can be far more cost-effective, are part of the discretionary activities of American government – which means elected officials often cut these efforts when budgets are tight. So even as government expenditures for medical care grow, assistance for publichealth agencies shrink.”

American Cancer Society Action Network:

"In an era of budget priority-setting, prevention and public health must remain a national policy priority to save lives and reduce the number of cancer deaths,” the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network."

Trust for America's Health:

"It is counterproductive to include any prevention cuts in the super committee's deficit reduction package. It's just getting off the ground. For various reasons, it just doesn't seem to be a program that should even be considered as a part of these packages."

Harold Pollack in the New Republic:

"It’s disappointing but unsurprising to read that Super-committee Democrats may cut the Affordable Care Act's ten-year $15 billion Prevention and Public Health Fund...The Fund is less than two percent of new spending initiated under health reform. The idea is popular with voters. Yet the Fund has proved politically vulnerable... A November, 2009 survey conducted by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that 71 percent of Americans favor an increased investment in disease prevention and that disease prevention is one of the most popular components of health reform."