There is a high impact on health care cost due to chronic diseases. This is mainly due to the lowering of the mortality rate of chronic diseases. In the past there were less people living with these types of diseases or surviving them. There is also an increase in the diagnosis of these types of diseases. With the newer technologies they are able to diagnose more patients properly with these diseases as well as diagnose them early enough to treat them or cure them if possible. Here is some information I found concerning a couple of these chronic diseases:
Diabetes
Whereas the mortality of the previous two diseases is declining, the mortality of diabetes in