They're distributing medical supplies, and they're executing a public health plan to control disease and other health-related issues that might arise.
"The most important elements right now are both a development of a concerted public health plan, which involves setting up significant detection, and setting up the hospitals' ability to diagnose, treat and push vaccines, " said Jeremy Levin , also in March.
Within the next two years, all children aged two to 17 will be offered annual flu vaccinations, public health officials plan.
Obama said Tuesday that having a public health insurance plan is "an important tool to discipline insurance companies" and will help control spiraling health care costs.
If the Senate eventually passes a health care bill, its version will have to be merged with the version the House of Representatives passed in November, which includes a public health insurance plan.
Mr. Lawman also said he could replace Medicare and Medicaid with a break-even public health-care plan.
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But Professor Lindsey Davies, the president of the Faculty of Public Health, backed the plan.
What ever happened to asking questions about the quality of care, the cost of insurance, the impact of any public plan on the health care system?
Will the public option in the health care reform plan die an ignoble death, or will he somehow come up with a strategy to jam it through the Senate?
But NHS public health director Laurence Gruer said the action plan was the right package of "tough but sensible" measures to tackle smoking addiction.
Concerned that moderate Democrats may vote against any final health bill containing such a controversial public plan, the administration this week softened its support for the notion.
This information could be invaluable for public health departments, providing them advanced warnings and time to plan with additional doctors, hospital beds or school closings.
To combat the latest outbreak, officials and volunteers plan to kick off a new public-health campaign this Sunday, persuading residents to "do the 'mozzie' wipeout" by clearing out stagnant water in homes and public spaces.
This is why the hidden costs of single-payer health care would easily swamp any minuscule difference in administrative costs and profits there might be between a private health insurance plan and a tax-financed public plan.
Aside from cost, the other great health debate this year involves whether to include a public insurance plan to compete against private insurers.
But this week, Harry Reid, the majority leader of the Senate, said that he may have the 60 votes necessary to pass a version of the health-reform bill that includes some form of public plan.
The House of Representatives, which leans further left than the Senate, has been adamant that it would not pass any health-reform bill that did not include a public plan, while the only bill that seemed likely to emerge from the Senate was one that pointedly excluded this feature.
The head of a powerful labor union even put Democrats on notice that it would be, in future elections, open season on anyone who supported a health care reform plan that doesn't include a public option.
The government plan was welcomed by opposition parties, although Labour public health spokesman Dr Richard Simpson warned some anti-smoking budgets were "flat lining", while the Tories' Jackson Carlaw said action to deter youngsters from taking up smoking should start with parents.
They do not understand the plan, its impetus, and the beneficial effects on public health.
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He implied some Democrats gave him little credit for bringing health insurance to 30 million Americans, because a public health-insurance option to compete with private companies was dropped from the plan.
Maine's 2003 reform plan, Dirigo Health, included a government insurance option resembling the public option included in the House health-care bill.
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Both want to increase public spending on pre-school programmes and on health care, though Mr Bradley's plan would, as Mr Gore constantly points out, be more expensive than Mr Gore's.
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