Open Letter to President Trump. How to Cure the Disease Treatment System? Make It a Health Care System.

Clearly the current way we address health and disease in the United States is not working. We now suffer the highest burden of chronic disease in every age group ever in human history. And, at the same time, we have the most expensive health care system ever. Why? Because the actual causes of disease are not being addressed. Eight years ago, when you were first elected president, I gathered together the leadership of natural, integrative, functional, and environmental medicine to provide guidance on what needed to change. Unfortunately, none of our recommendations were addressed, every measure of health and disease burden has worsened, and health care costs continue to increase far beyond the rate of inflation. President Trump, please take a look and consider these recommendations.