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A New Health Tracker?

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There may be some relief for 30 million folks soon.  Of that number, about 1/3 are kids!

About what am I talking?   Folks with asthma.  These folks have an ailment that incurs health care costs of about $ 56 billion a year.  In the overall scheme of things, that’s not too much, amounting to about 0.5% of our total health care expenditures.    But, it’s the kids with asthma that create the problem.  Plus many of these kids come from the lower side of the economic strata, which means they fail to obtain treatment, they miss school, etc.

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