"BPA Among Toxic Chemicals Driving Up Health Care Costs, Experts Say"

"Health care spending in the U.S. has surged more than eightfold since the 1960s. Skyrocketing in that same time: Rates of chronic disease, use of synthetic chemicals, and evidence that many of these widely used substances may be wreaking havoc on human health."

"'We know that these chemicals are reaching people. We know that chemicals can cause disease,' said Dr. Philip Landrigan, chairman of the department of preventative medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

'Those diseases cost money,' Landrigan added."

Lynne Peeples reports for Huffington Post January 22, 2014.