Most of us understand that chronic diseases are costly to manage. Still, that cost can sometimes be hard to appreciate, especially before those chronic diseases fully develop. Reasonably healthy people may be more preoccupied with more immediate costs, like weekly grocery spending. At least, that’s what the data seems to show us. What else does the data show us? How well do our perceptions of cost align with reality?
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