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What are the chances of becoming ill? • Heart disease and stroke are among the leading causes of death for U.S. women & men. Cardiac deaths have increased dramatically among people younger than age 35. • Every 30 seconds a new cancer is diagnosed in the U.S. • Every year, about 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke. About 3/4 of these are first strokes; 1/4 are recurrent strokes. • Currently, one in four deaths in the United States is due to cancer.3 How financially devastating can it be? • Most bankruptcies filed because of illness are filed by people who do have health insurance . • Today the cost of treating Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia is estimated at $109 billion. • The estimated cost of treating heart disease today is $102 billion. Cancer treatment is around $77 billion. • 2 percent of cancer patients were driven into bankruptcy by their illness and its treatment.