If Americans want to know why their health care is so costly and getting
costlier, they need only look in the mirror.
Americans are notoriously unhealthy--we eat too much, drink too much, and sit
too much. When roughly 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and 40 percent of
all cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes, it is time to
take a deeper look at the problem and ask who is truly responsible. Consider
that:
- After seventy years of innovation, heart disease and cancer remain the top two
causes of death in the United States.
- In 1960, health care spending was 5 percent of