United Health Foundation
America's Health Rankings(TM) Finds Advances in Disease Treatment, but Not Disease Prevention; Preventable Chronic Diseases Threaten Access and Affordability of Medical Care
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, November 30th, 2009
The data contained in the 20th Anniversary Edition of America's Health Rankings™ notes a worrisome escalation in preventable diseases that will significantly increase costs in an already unaffordable medical care delivery system. Of the $2.4 trillion of annual health care expenditures in the United States, $1.8 trillion is associated with the treatment of chronic disease, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
"As our nation's leaders discuss health care reform and address the essential challenge of providing medical care coverage for 46 million uninsured Americans, controlling the escalation in health care costs is an imperative," said Reed Tuckson, M.D,...
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