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Why is preventive health care important?
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Prevention: It allows you and your physician to work on a plan for avoiding disease or at the very least catching a problem early on when things are usually easier to treat.
Answered 6/8/2015
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Read further...: To decrease the risk of future illnesses and to keep health care costs down for you as an individual and for society as a whole.
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