question that our system can produce positive results when focused on the right problem. U.S. hospitals today are filled with some of the world’s mos… - Casey Means

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question that our system can produce positive results when focused on the right problem. U.S. hospitals today are filled with some of the world’s most dedicated, intelligent, and hardworking professionals. But they are operating in a system that has lost its way, one that now makes money when patients are sick and loses money when they are healthy. The modern medical system has systematically, overwhelmingly, and unequivocally let us down in preventing and reversing chronic disease. In fact, if you pull out deaths from the top eight infectious diseases (which were decreased by antibiotics) from historical data, life expectancy rates haven’t improved much in the past 120 years — despite, of course, the fact that health care is the largest and fastest-growing industry in the United States — with the vast majority of health care dollars going to chronic disease care.