Calley Means: "History of chronic disease medications has been a complete disaster.

Chronic disease medications didn't exist before 1960. The first one was the birth control pill. The first pill that you took for more than a couple of weeks that didn't cure the issue right away, ever. So in 1960 zero percent was on chronic conditions, today 95% of spending is on chronic conditions. The system realized that they can take the trust engendered after WWII with antibiotics and various medical innovations that helped win that war and then steer it towards chronic conditions. So by the 1970s 30% of women in the US were on Valium, a highly addictive drug. And it's just been a battle to shift a medical system to chronic disease."