Make America Healthy Again How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis

Nicole Saphier, Emily Durante

eAudio - 2020

If Americans want to know why their health care is so costly and getting costlier, they need only look in the mirror.Americans are notoriously unhealthy—we eat too much, drink too much, and sit too much. When roughly 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and 40 percent of all cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes, it is time to take a deeper look at the problem and ask who is truly responsible. Consider that: · After seventy years of innovation, heart disease and cancer remain the top two causes of death in the United States.· In 1960, health care spending was 5 percent of America's GDP; today, it is 17.5 percent.· The government spends over $1 trillion annually on health care.· Nearly one in five American de...aths is associated with poor diets.· Simply reducing sodium intake by 1,200 mg per day could save up to $20 billion a year in medical costs. In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole...

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HarperAudio
Language
English
Main Authors
Nicole Saphier, Emily Durante
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File Size256 GB
ISBN9780062961051
Release Date4/21/2020