This is a YouTube video titled "6 Out Of 10 Americans Have A Chronic Disease" containing a conversation recorded on February 20, 2020. The discussion features Ask AI Mark and another speaker addressing the economic burden of chronic diseases in the U.S., highlighting alarming projections about Medicare funding and the impact on government spending and healthcare systems globally.
And when you look at the amount of economic burden of chronic disease, we talked a little earlier, but six out of 10 Americans have a chronic disease. Four have two or more. And by 2030, which is 10 years, 83 million Americans are gonna have three or more chronic diseases. And it's bankrupting our country. You know, in six years, by 2026, there will be no money in the Medicare Trust Fund. And what that means is we're screwed. It means we don't have any backup money to pay for the overhead on Medicare. We have to pay for it out.
Of our current revenue.
And it's a trillion dollar a year budget for Medicare. Crazy. That's one-third of our total tax revenue. And it's growing and growing. And by 2048, it's going to be 100% of government mandatory spending by 2048.
Just for those who listen, can you say that one more time? Okay. I was like, it's.
Hard to understand the magnitude. It's hard to understand. Okay, so just get this. By 2048, according to current trends and.
Estimates by.
The government, there will be no money left for anything except chronic disease. It will only be money for that, no money for roads, education, transportation, defense, nothing.
That's how expensive it's gonna become if we don't wake up as a society and do something. And for those that are listening that are saying, well, that's because the US doesn't have universal healthcare and other things, countries like England are also dealing with this. Countries like Canada are also projecting out that even though they have universal healthcare, because the chronic disease burden is so intense, they are not going to have enough money to fund it.
