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Casey Means: “90% of healthcare costs are now going to chronic diseases.”

Featuring: Casey Means, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels | National

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Published | Video Starts at 04:39

We have an incredible healthcare system. It's amazing. It's produced miracles. If we have an acute issue, absolutely, you want to be in America to get that fixed. But 90% of healthcare costs are now going to chronic diseases. Frankly, having practiced, seen thousands of patients worked in this system for almost a decade in clinical medicine, it's not the focus of what we as doctors are incentivized to spend our time on. (04:39–04:43)

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Asserts that a significant portion of healthcare costs is attributed to chronic diseases.

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