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

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.⁣⁣ ⁣ View Show Notes
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