America Pays $722.8 Billion for Chronic Pain and Still Gets Care Wrong

productivity.

A bill of that size should command national attention. Instead, pain patients are often discussed mainly as prescribing risks, insurance costs, or numbers inside a government guideline.

The human loss receives less notice because it can’t be neatly totaled.

A spreadsheet can’t measure the parent who can’t attend a child’s game, the spouse continue reading …