What Community Health Centers Mean to Americans and How they Manage Chronic Diseases
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.
