Percentage of the total health care expenditures in the US is
attributable to the care of chronic diseases.

Hi,

The total health care expenditures in the US sum up to 1,4 trillion dollars:

"In 2001 national health care expenditures in the United States
totaled $1.4 trillion, increasing 8.7 percent from the previous year
compared with a 7.4 percent increase in 2000."
Source: "Medical News Today"
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?newsid=6225

About 75 % of those expenditures are attributable to chronic diseases:

"Chronic illnesses are responsible for 75 percent of the nation's
health care expenditures."
Source: "The Council of State Governments"
http://www.csg.org/CSG/Policy/health/Chronic+Illness+Summit.htm

"Chronic illness accounts for 75 percent of the nation's health care expenditures."
Source: "The Council of State Governments"
http://www.csg.org/CSG/News+Room/press+releases/Chronic+Illness+Summit.htm

"The chronically ill account for 78 percent of all health care
expenditures and 97 percent of all Medicaid expenditures for people
age 65 and older."
Source: "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"
http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulp/chronic/ulpchron.htm


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Thank you,
paul_b_18

thanks for the quick response!!