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If we go back to look at the costs of the health care system
itself, ten years ago the estimate was that poor adherence accounted for 100 billion
dollars of unnecessary costs to the health care system annually. Those dollars have
inflated because we have not seen improvement in our abilities to assist patients to
follow treatment regimens. Now those dollars are up closer to 140 or 150 billion dollars a
year. That is close to the amount of dollars that cardiovascular disease contributes to
helping the country.
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