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Policymakers should ensure that telemarketing practices incorporate consumer protections. Telemarketers should:
The Federal Trade Commission should strengthen the Telemarketing Sales Rule.
Consumers should be protected against spam e-mail. Policymakers should prohibit misrepresentation of the sender, subject, or content of an e-mail.
Policymakers and health care administrators must conduct adequate emergency preparedness planning.
Policymakers should collaborate to identify, develop, fund, and implement timely, effective response plans for national, state, and local public health crises.
Federal and state governments should ensure the collection and public reporting of comprehensive, accurate data during an epidemic or pandemic and other public health crises or natural disasters.&n
Health care providers, businesses, schools, organizations, and individuals should be educated about behavioral risk factors for contracting and spreading serious communicable diseases.
Federal and state policymakers should continue to enact health care reforms that achieve access to health care and provide adequate protection against health care costs.
Federal or state health coverage mandates should expand insurance coverage and reduce health insurance costs across broad populations.