TY - JOUR T1 - Help put “injury” prevention and care into healthcare reform JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 285 LP - 285 DO - 10.1136/ip.2009.023358 VL - 15 IS - 4 AU - Corinne Peek-Asa AU - Susan DeFrancesco AU - Susan Gallagher AU - Richard Sattin Y1 - 2009/08/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/15/4/285.abstract N2 - One of the top political issues currently being addressed by the new political administration in the USA is healthcare reform. In a recent White House Forum on Health Reform, President Barack Obama identified healthcare reform as both a moral and fiscal imperative, and stated: “We can agree that if we want to bring down skyrocketing costs, we’ll need to modernize our system and invest in prevention.”1The health reform effort is moving quickly under the leadership of Senator Ted Kennedy, with the prevention component led by Senator Tom Harkin. Senator Harkin has been an ardent supporter of public health through more than two decades of service in the Senate and has pledged his full support to the prevention component of healthcare reform. At a recent hearing he stated: “This is going to be an extraordinarily … ER -