First, let me apologize for my long absence. I’ve been working on a project — watch for it in Sunday’s paper — that’s taken me offline for awhile. It is that ever-present struggle here at The Gazette to balance Web and print demands.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about health care reform. I stumbled across an interesting post through the Association of Health Care Journalists, of which I’m a member. One of Obama’s key messages in this debate is that reform can be paid for largely by prevention. Some pretty smart folks refute that idea.

I don’t think anyone would argue that if people, as a population, took excellent care of themselves our medical bills would drop. But using the “prevention” argument as an economic one is questionable. Check it out here.

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