By Steve Ubl   Last year, at a board meeting, I presented a video about the value of medical technology. The video focused on a mom struggling with caring for a toddler with type 1 diabetes. I distinctly remember a moment when the young child looks incredulously at his mother, who is...

Kenneth Thorpe and Candace DeMatteis April 18, 2016   Today, two of the primary focal points for many policy leaders include boosting individual income growth and, independently, reducing health care spending growth. None that we’re aware of, however, have identified and are...

As we prepare to head to the polls over the coming weeks and months, health care and the economy continue to be issues that are top of mind. At the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, we are on the ground and in the states, challenging the candidates to develop a strategy to tackle the number one...

Tar Heels Take a Step in the Right Direction to Lowering Health Care Costs Some North Carolina communities are making health a priority for the months and years ahead, investing $450,000 in the “Healthy People, Health Carolinas,” project. Chronic disease accounts for 90 cents of every...