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Preventive care can prevent soaring health-care costs

Posted: September 27, 2009 at 8:32 a.m.

As the health-care reform debate roars through town-hall meetings and radio airwaves, a more fundamental revolution is quietly taking place: the paradigm shift from reactive to proactive health care. The American ingenuity that brought us airplanes, artificial hearts and, yes, even Astroturf is discovering ways to help people live longer, healthier lives.

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Opinion, Pages 13 on 09/27/2009

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