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Bernard Lown, MD*

After 50 years of researching, teaching and practicing cardiovascular medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health and at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, I am persuaded that the growing problem of heart and vascular disease must be addressed primarily through prevention at the community level. In fact the richest country in the world, the United States of America, faces a mounting health care crisis largely because it focused on high technology based curative strategies that place no premium on prevention. The average American spends $4,000 annually for health services, yet a fourth of the population lacks adequate or any health insurance.
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