Briefing on the Toll of Diabetes
Today, January 23rd 2008, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the members of the congressional diabetes caucus will hold a briefing to announce the annual diabetes cost estimates for 2007. Maybe if you're in Washington you can drop by and listen to the briefing.During this briefing, speakers will release staggering new figures about the direct and indirect costs of the disease, and reveal the devastating expense incurred by Americans.I'll be interested to see how much the incidence and cost of diabetes has increased. And also whether any new legislation is proposed during the briefing.
Update: The final estimated cost(PDF) for diabetes in 2007 was $174 billion. The US Population last year was about 300,000,000 people. That means the toll of diabetes was about $580 for every person in the US.
If a cure is ever found that would mean that huge amount of money could eventually be put to better uses. Hey, I'd happily take mine as a tax break!
posted by Bernard @ 5:40 AM
1 Comments
Links to this post
