Are 76% of Americans living with chronic conditions? Maybe no one to blame. Is it a result of people living longer?

The figure of around 76% US population having chronic disease has surfaced in Kennedy's testimony to Congress. Again, the blame game is going. He wants to blame former management of CDC as the rate is higher now than it was in the 1950s and 60s.

Back then, our population was younger so maybe it's no one's fault. A higher percent of our population is older and more vulnerable to chronic disease, now than back then. I would also blame sedentary lifestyles. One can also wonder where he got those figures. Did he pull them out of a hat? If I were secretary of health, I would try and get more people to ride bicycles instead of driving cars. Diet and lots of other factors are there also, but plain age is a big factor. People are living longer. Maybe more people are surviving with their chronic diseases when they would have been dead and not counted in the population before.

Is medicine saving lives looked at as a good thing or a bad thing?

Maybe a bad thing if more people are surviving with diseases and thus being counted in the statistics with those conditions.

Somehow, I think that could be considered a good thing. Positive spin, or negative spin.

I think blaming is one of our culture's biggest problems. Is it big pharma, politicians or space aliens that have caused our health problems? I doubt it. Maybe it's stress from all that finger pointing.