Facing the Issues

About the Crisis

Chronic diseases are creating a national health care crisis.

Chronic diseases - ongoing, generally incurable illnesses, such as asthma, arthritis, cancer, diabetes and heart disease - are the single greatest threat to our nation's health and to our health care system.

Our Policy Platform

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease proposes the following public policy recommendations to focus our nation's leaders -- including the 2008 presidential candidates -- on the crisis of chronic disease and highlight common-sense reforms that will help the nation to address this challenge:

Current Debate

CBO Scoring

As health care reform becomes a major focus of Congress and the Administration, current CBO scoring processes leave out valuable information lawmakers should have when making critical decisions about health care reform proposals.

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About PFCD

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) is a coalition of hundreds of patient, provider, community, business and labor groups, and health policy experts, committed to raising awareness of the number one cause of death, disability and...