Perhaps the biggest key to controlling health care costs will be confronting the burden of disease, Cosgrove said. Three preventable conditions – smoking, obesity and lack of activity – cause 40 percent of premature deaths, 70 percent of chronic disease, and 75 percent of all health care costs.”We can no longer figure that we can live any kind of lifestyle we want and then, when you get sick, expect to be taken care of,” he said.

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