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Name: Obamanation

Comments: How would Obama benefit from this if he were lower middle class and got lung cancer from smoking?

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Americans cut back on doctor visits, prescriptions:

Americans made fewer visits to the doctor last year and were issued fewer prescriptions, a clear indication that many people are struggling to pay for health care. This decline came despite the introduction of 34 new medicines by the pharmaceutical industry, the largest number in a decade. Ref. Source 7

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US adults get failing grade in healthy lifestyle behavior

Only 2.7 percent of the US adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a 'healthy lifestyle' and help protect against cardiovascular disease, a recent study concluded. Ref. Source 5r.

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What your insurance might look like under Trump's health secretary

BYU professor Mark Showalter says the Republican plan is likely to bring premiums down. But there will be a trade-off in the “social justice sense," he said. Ref. Source 6o.

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There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.

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Wow, that seems like it's too high a number. That means almost 33% of Americans has some type of chronic illness. One in three of us? Seems like it's too many… unless I misread this.

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I can see this as the doctors in the US will tell a patient they have a chronic disease so they can get more treatment money I think some of it also has to do wit hall the processed foods we are eating too.

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Yeah, I can see that we are misdiagnosed at the 33% level. But I just don't think 33% of us actually have chronic conditions.