Local View: Northland hospitals need to put prevention into practice and support nutritious food

As pundits and politicians spout divergent opinions over the outcome of the Supreme Court health-care decision, the hidden truth is that our health-care delivery model has negative economic impacts on Americans. We all know heart-wrenching stories of families bankrupted by medical bills. Yet we must remind ourselves of the collective, economic devastation to our national economy from a disease-treatment system in the context of an overwhelming epidemic of a largely preventable burden of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases.

By: Dr. Nancy Sudak and Steve O'Neil, Duluth News Tribune