A huge portion of the overall cost of health care goes to treating chronic disease because ____.
A.chronic diseases are serious and always require expensive surgeries and other procedures.
B.chronic disease is an illness with no easy cure or solution, so treatment is typically extensive and long- lasting.
C.chronic disease is not preventable, so once a patient has a chronic disease, they have it for life.
D.chronic disease is the result of lifestyle, and diseases that are preventable are never covered under insurance.
