The US spends $4.3 trillion on healthcare, more than three times military spending, yet chronic disease in children jumped from 6% in the 1960s to 60% today. Healthcare costs drive 66% of personal bankruptcies, and 93% of Medicare goes to treating chronic diseases linked to environment, nutrition, and lifestyle.
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I want to tell you 4 simple statistics that will open your eyes to just how bad the American healthcare system is. If you look at the industrial military complex, all of the bases, all of the soldiers, all of the military contracting and spending, that adds up to $1.3 trillion. The American healthcare budget, $4.3 trillion, over 3 times what we spend on global military spending just to keep people healthy. Why? If you go back to the 1960s, only 6% of our children had a chronic disease. Today it is 60%, a 10 times increase in the number of children that need treatment. If you look at Medicare with our seniors, the opposite. 93% of Medicare spending is on chronic disease management, things that nobody needs to have that are caused by environment, nutrition, and lifestyle factors. We have a privatized model where hedge funds now own the majority of how healthcare is processed. And it's no surprise that we went from 4% GDP spending in healthcare in the 1960s to a now whopping 20% of American GDP spent on trying to keep us alive. Meanwhile, 66% of personal bankruptcies are due to healthcare costs. Understand that the healthcare system is not designed to be healthy, caring, nor a system. You need to take charge of your own health to not be one of these statistics.
