America and the Chronic Illness Crisis

we are now the sickest country in the

world we have the highest chronic

disease burden in the world when my

uncle was President I was a you know

10-year-old boy about 6% of Americans

had chronic illness and today 60% do and

my uncle was President we spent zero in

this country on chronic disease zero and

today we spend $4.3 trillion so about

95% of our health budget it's the

biggest item in our budget and it is the

fastest growing