What if early in his first term as president of the United States, Barack Obama announced that a core strategy in his health care reform plan was to push the United States from a system dominated by treatment of disease to a more balanced approach that also focused on enhancing health and quality of life. He challenged his Cabinet by saying that their individual performance would be judged, and the future funding of their organizations would be determined, by their ability to use the resources and authority of their departments to improve health in addition to the core goal of their department.
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