As lawmakers divvied up billions of dollars last year to address the nation’s fiscal crisis via the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), they did not skimp on funding health . About one of every six and a half ARRA dollars went to programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)–the single largest allocation for any federal agency. Less than 1 percent of those monies, however, are going toward keeping people from getting sick in the first place. [More]
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