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Chronic disease to cost $47 trillion by 2030: WEF
The global economic impact of the five leading chronic diseases -- cancer, diabetes, mental illness, heart disease, and respiratory disease -- could reach $47 trillion over the next 20 years, according to a study by the World Economic Forum (WEF). ….
"This is not a health issue, this is an economic issue ….." ……
U.S. Halts Long-Term Care Program
The Obama administration said Friday it is unable to implement a long-term care insurance program that was part of the 2010 health overhaul, effectively ending the program before it started.
The initiative, known as the Class Act, was included in the law to help Americans cover the cost of aid for daily-living needs such as bathing and using the toilet if they became unable to care for themselves. Mounting concerns that the program was too costly over the long run had prompted officials at the Department of Health and Human Services to re-examine the program in recent months. …..
On ATS.
Its affordability, the increase in long-term chronic illnesses ….and the ….affordability of elderly social care are used by some to argue for the break-up of the NHS or at least for its fundamental reform.
…..The Government has made it clear that it wants the NHS to be opened up to more competition.
On ATS: NHS Privatisation Day?; NHS Bill clears major Lords hurdles.
The push is in the offing since the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recommended to the Union health ministry to make cancer a "notifiable disease".
At present, highly infectious diseases like plague, polio, H5N1 bird flu or the H1N1 swine flu figure in the list. Cancer will become the first non-communicable disease (NCD) to be bracketed under the same category.
On ATS: Cancer to be a "Notifiable Disease" in India
….Mental health, which is typically left off lists of leading NCDs, will account for $16 trillion -- a third of the overall $47 trillion anticipated costs.
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NCDs have become a universal threat. They kill three in five people a year...in 2011... Roughly a third will be younger than 60. Even larger numbers of people are living disabled by these illnesses.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of death globally, killing more people each year than all other causes combined. ….
Of the 57 million deaths that occurred globally in 2008, 36 million – almost two thirds – were due to NCDs, comprising mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic lung diseases.1 The combined burden of these diseases is rising fastest among lower-income countries, populations and communities, where they impose large, avoidable costs in human, social and economic terms. About one fourth of global NCD-related deaths take place before the age of 60.
…..even in 2000, ….NCDs had emerged as a major cause of inequity, as a major cause of premature death and disability and as a major impediment in the fight against poverty.
…..cash-strapped governments, health systems and businesses, still recovering from the continuing financial crisis, are all in intense fiscal consolidation mode. More important, the problem and its cure seem much too broad. The NCD pandemic is not caused by an identifiable virus but from the same technological and economic progress that has enabled major population growth and helped address significant health problems of the past. These problems are now overshooting the limits of human biology, as the NCD pandemic is spreading faster among the poor than the rich.
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by soficrow
Georgia Guidestones bro. Its all about the Georgia Guidestones and the global elite's bid to reduce the worlds population down to 500 million (or is it 500k?).
They have deemed that the rest of humanity is not worth letting live so theyre going to hit the reset button, and part of poisoning us with prions is part of the plan.
Are we coming to a time when these people will be put in a category of incurable, too costly to maintain, or otherwise beyond hope? Is that being done now?
What of the people who are poor and do not have the resources to pay for expensive and questionable chemo-therapy and radiation for treatment of cancer?
Originally posted by stephinrazin
Interesting. A minute ago I was at a site where I read this story about Alzheimers being contagious. I find this highly unlikely considering the countless hours I spent caring for family members. If it were possible I should have had it for years.
Scary when the population plans seem to steam on in the open.
....according to surprising results from a new study. "Some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process" similar to mad cow disease, a researcher says.
Now, they may come to the conclusion that the people who suffer most from their destructive ways must be terminated. See, this is the mentality which prevails when everything becomes a commodity. It no longer holds anything special in meaning or being, all is replaceable, all is for sale. And man will be treated no better than a deer by a hunter; we are that deer and the economic elite are the hunters. You are replaceable, you mean absolutely nothing at all, your sick parents or sick child is nothing but a burden on them who they view as disposable. All sense of humanity and nature has been removed; we have entered the final stages of our own death.
Originally posted by soficrow
And the people who can't afford to pay for decent food and clean water? ......They're SOL.