What Community Health Centers Mean to Americans and How they Manage Chronic Diseases
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Authored by Malvise Scott, Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Resource Development, National Association of Community Health Centers and Eileen Howard Boone, President, CVS Caremark Charitable Trust
If 75% of your income was spent on funding a medical condition that could have been prevented in the first place, that would get your attention, right?
Currently as a nation, 75% of our health care dollars are allocated to the treatment of chronic diseases. That’s more than $1 trillion a year spent on treating preventable, chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. And the impact of chronic diseases extends beyond these monetary implications: more than half of Americans suffer from one or more chronic disease every year, making them the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.