The $400bn in diabetes-related annual expenditures is breaking the back of our healthcare system. But there is an alternative
A funny thing happened when Dr Robert Califf, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, delivered the keynote address to the American Diabetes Association’s annual scientific session last month – he told the truth about our country’s colossal failure to treat the raging health crisis.
“For the larger epidemic of type 2 diabetes, we’re failing right now,” Califf said. “I don’t say that lightly.”
Neil Barsky, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and investment manager, is the founder of The Marshall Project
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