Why does almost 80% of America’s healthcare spend go to treating chronic disease while prevention barely receives a fraction of the $5 trillion health budget?

On this episode of The Policy Stack, Lisa Bari tries to get to the root of the problem with Dr. Anand Parekh, Chief Health Policy Officer at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and author of Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America.

A veteran of two decades at HHS under George Bush and Barack Obama, Parekh explains what's actually being cut when the CDC loses 53% of its budget, wh ...