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Obesity and type 2 diabetes create trillions of dollars in direct and indirect healthcare costs each year, due to their high prevalence and their ability to promote a wide range of other chronic diseases.

These diseases are perpetuated by subsidies of the wrong kinds of foods\\u2014like sugar and flour\\u2014making them cheaper and more widely available while creating a vicious cycle of poor health. It\\u2019s social detriments to health like this that support a sick-care system, as opposed to empowered wellness.

My guest on this week\\u2019s episode of The Doctor\\u2019s Farmacy, Dr. Toby Cosgrove, shares his decades of experience in working to turn our healthcare system around for the better and change the future of medicine as we know it. Toby and I met at the World Economic Forum many years ago, when I jokingly asked how he would feel about emptying out his hospitals and cutting the angioplasties and bypasses at Cleveland Clinic in half using a systems-based approach. At that time, Dr. Cosgrove was the CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic; he went on to become my boss when I joined the Cleveland Clinic team.

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