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“People with diagnosed diabetes incur average medical expenditures of about $13,700 per year, of which about $7,900 is attributed to diabetes. People with diagnosed diabetes, on average, have medical expenditures approximately 2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes.

For the cost categories analyzed, care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for more than 1 in 5 health care dollars in the U.S., and more than half of that expenditure is directly attributable to diabetes.

Indirect costs include:

• increased absenteeism ($5 billion) and
• reduced productivity while at work ($20.8 billion) for the employed population,
• reduced productivity for those not in the labor force ($2.7 billion),
• inability to work as a result of disease-related disability ($21.6 billion), and
• lost productive capacity due to early mortality ($18.5 billion).”

See more at: http://www.diabetes.org/advocacy/news-events/cost-of-diabetes.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/#sthash.loZM0HR0.dpuf

Treating diabetes is a 322 Billion dollar industry. Your doctors get compensated by insurance, Medicare and Medicaid to “manage” your disease.

It’s a disease that you can treat with diet, but who has the discipline to reduce sugar, wheat and processed foods?

If you have diabetes, then you’re a profit center for the doctor that’s managing your disease instead of curing it.

“It’s not costing me anything, you say?”

It’s costing you everything if you die early.

Just sayin.’