The longer duration of illness and treatment, often in hospitals, increases health-care costs and the financial burden to families and societies.
患病和治疗期限较长（常常是住院），也会增加卫生保健费用和对家庭及社会的经济负担。
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Health care costs also have outstripped inflation; the cost of a catastrophic illness can quickly knock a middle-class household into another, better-defined economic category: poverty.
医疗费用的增速甚至也超过了通胀率；生一场大病就能迅速把一个中产家庭打入贫困家庭的行列。
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Better prevention and preparation will help us to avoid the illness, lives lost, and financial costs associated with AD hoc, unplanned, emergency responses.