Friday, May 06, 2005
Huckabee in Newsweek Exclusive
Here's a web exclusive interview by Newsweek with Governor Huckabee. The whole interview is a must-read for those who want to know more about the Governor and his thoughts about health and healthcare, but here is a passage we think is particularly revealing. It sheds light on how he sees America's current health care crisis and the role of the government and public-health community in fighting it:
"If you look at the early 1900s when most Americans were dying prematurely from infectious diseases like smallpox, malaria, whooping cough and diphtheria, the public-health community and government came together and said we need to deal with these issues-vaccinate people, find cures, clean up the water supply and the food supply. They tackled it as a public-health problem and, in a reasonably short period of time, we eliminated most of these diseases. We need to do the same thing with chronic disease [such as obesity]. "
Governor Mike Huckabee
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