The latest program in the Fred Friendly Seminars series investigates a contemporary health care crisis. People with serious, chronic illness make up the fastest-growing and most expensive group of patients, but America's health care systems remain focused on acute care. Suffering from long-term chronic conditions like hypertension, asthma, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, or heart disease, millions of people are faced with agonizing choices every day as they struggle with a health care system not designed to meet their medical needs.