#2208 - Brigham Buhler

5559.421 - 5586.533 Brigham Buhler

This is not just a number. These are real lives. One point nine million people dying a year of chronic disease. That doesn't even include deaths of despair, suicide, opioid abuse. We are a chronically ill society. And those impacts destroy families, destroy them. The ramifications are so far beyond that. Finances in numbers, but even finances in numbers, 24% of our federal budget, healthcare.