The annual America's Health Rankings^® provides a health care roadmap for state and local governments to curb costs and promote healthy living.

Here are four of the major findings from United Health Foundation's 20^th anniversary edition of America's Health Rankings: A Call To Action for Individuals and Their Communities, an annual state-by-state analysis of the nation's health and well-being:

• Of the $2.4 trillion in annual health care spending, three-quarters ($1.8 trillion) goes to the treatment of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.