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Gov. Eliot Spitzer
We can afford to deliver health care in this [primary care] setting, because you catch diseases, you prevent diseases from becoming chronic diseases, and you save loads of money.
New
York Times, March 8 |
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New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
We have to address the lack of access to primary care...There are too many neighborhoods, especially in low-income and isolated areas, where you can’t find a primary care doctor or a full service clinic anywhere...To change that, and help expand access to primary care, I am proposing that we create 10 state of the art healthcare facilities in high-need communities over the next five years...They will help ensure that more New Yorkers have access to the kind of first-rate preventive health care that so many of us take for granted.
State
of the City, February 15 |
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer
No patient-first health care strategy can be
complete without a comprehensive effort to address
public health. I will arm Dr. Daines and the
Department of Health with the resources and
the mandate to implement a strategy that targets
primary and preventive care—resources that
will go to support programs that decrease obesity
rates and increase healthy eating and physical
exercise, prevent childhood lead poisoning,
expand access to cervical cancer vaccines, prenatal
and postpartum home visits, and education regarding
public health concerns from the quality of mammograms
to green cleaning products.
“Patients
First—An Agenda to Fundamentally Reform
New York’s Health Care System,” given
Friday, January 26, 2007 at the Rockefeller
Institute, Albany, NY
Expanding access
to health care will reduce state spending significantly
in the long run, because seeing a primary care
doctor costs far less than providing charity
care for the same patient in an emergency room
and it leads to far better care.
State
of the State Address given Wednesday, January
3, 2007
at the State Capitol
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