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A Positive Industry Message:
Results for Life
These are not anecdotes, but facts that
are integral to shaping a better and more
cost-effective health care system for
Americans. This is a story that needs to be
told to lawmakers, the news media and the
American public. And this story is being told
today through the efforts of Results for Life,
a national campaign launched in 2007 by
the American Clinical Laboratory Association,
of which LabCorp is a member.
Results for Life is educating opinion
and policymakers through studies, polling,
multimedia materials, Internet communica-
tions and targeted advertising. The campaign
goal is to communicate how clinical laboratory
testing contributes to a health care system
that places a high priority on prevention and
early detection of illness. LabCorp urges
physicians, patients and shareholders to
visit www.resultsforlife.org to learn more
about the contributions that our industry can
make to enhance our health care system
and our lives.
“…We have the tests, treatments, data, and knowledge to control the devastating
impact of these diseases. We don’t have to wait for a miracle cure. As Congress and
the presidential candidates of both parties address the complex health care challenges
facing America, we all must not overlook the practical, evidence-based, real-world
solutions that already lie at our fi ngertips.”
— U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) writing in an op-ed column on the cost of chronic disease in America.
Published in The Hill, February 5, 2008.
A $31 pap smear can avert a potential
$36,000 in cervical cancer treatment.
A $17 test can detect lead in a 5-year-old
and alter the course of his entire life.
A $13 hemoglobin A1c test that tracks changes
in a patient’s glucose level over three months
could begin to reverse the $174 billion spent
annually on diabetes treatment.
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