Annonced today in "AMA News" is a coalition of health care, business and labor organizations intends to bring several unhealthy truths about chronic disease out of the shadows and into the spotlight of presidential politics. "We have a 'sick care' system, not a health care system in this country," said former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH a message many of us have been trying to push for a decade or more.
Note that:
Chronic diseases kill more than 1.7 million Americans each year.
They account for 75% of the nation's health care spending.
The vast majority of cases of chronic diseases can be better prevented or managed.
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