Why Our Current Healthcare System Keeps Us Sick And How To Fix It

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Essentia.   Heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the leading
causes of death—and premature death at that—in the US. These
diseases all have several risk factors in common, like smoking,
physical inactivity, and poor diet, which policy often views simply
as personal choices. We need to begin looking at disease prevention
beyond individual decision-making.   In this podcast, I talk
with Dr. Anand Parekh, Senator Bill Frist, and Dr. Dariush
Mozaffarian on the need for government policymakers to address
disease prevention.   Dr. Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan
Policy Center’s chief medical advisor, providing clinical and
public health expertise across the organization, particularly in
the areas of aging, prevention, and global health. As a US
Department of Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary
for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national
initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management.
He is the author of Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier
America.   Senator Bill Frist is a heart and lung transplant
surgeon and former US Senate majority leader. He led passage of the
2003 Medicare Modernization Act and the historic PEPFAR HIV/AIDS
legislation that has saved millions of lives worldwide. As the
founder and director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant
Center, he has performed over 150 heart and lung transplants,
authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, and published
seven books.   Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Dean
and Jean Mayer Professor at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition
Science and Policy, and professor of medicine at Tufts Medical
School. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications on
dietary priorities for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular
diseases and on evidence-based policy approaches to reduce these
burdens in the US and globally. He has served in numerous advisory
roles, including for the US and Canadian governments.⁣⁣ ⁣ This
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Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian