Means: Acute care accounts for only 5% to 7% of healthcare spending
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Health author Calley Means argues on My First Million that the modern healthcare system is predominantly oriented around chronic symptom management.
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“The acute innovations of the medical system, if we have an infection, gunshot wound, burst appendix, complicate childbirth, that's great, but that's five to seven percent of overall spending. The vast majority of the medical system is basically pilling and putting band-aids On chronic conditions.”
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