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Kaiser Health News: Will We Get The Biggest Bang From Health Law’s Prevention Grants?
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Backers of the health law’s provision of $15 billion for prevention efforts believe it has the
potential to improve health and reduce costs. But some question the administration’s decision to sprinkle money for community programs among dozens of groups testing different approaches, rather than channeling it to proven programs.
Ken Thorpe, who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, says more of the money should be spent on approaches that have a track record of reducing chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, and which can be expanded quickly nationwide.
“That’s not what we’re doing,” says Thorpe, who is also executive director of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, a coalition of patient, provider, business, labor and other groups. “We have so many pilot projects in so many jurisdictions … it will take us a generation to learn from them.”
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