America is sick and getting sicker by the moment.

Is it any wonder then that healthcare costs continue to surge out of control outpacing

every other sector of the economy?

Starbucks pays more for healthcare than it does for coffee beans.

General Motors pays more for healthcare than it does for steel.

$0.17 of every dollar spent in the US goes to healthcare.

That's one sixth of all spending.

48% of all federal spending is related to healthcare.

Not surprisingly, as of 2018, healthcare became the biggest business in the country.

And the killer literally is that we're not getting healthier.

Why is that?

Complex question.

But we can boil it down to two things.

One, we don't pay enough attention to our own health.

Strange, our health is our greatest asset and yet we often abuse it.

We eat food that doesn't nourish, avoid basic exercise and ignore sleep.

Two, we doctors don't pay enough attention to basic patient needs.

The healthcare system rewards us for doing things to people, not for people.

The result, a very expensive system to treat the most obese, medicated, comorbid population

in the world.

Let's look at these problems a little more closely.

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