The FDA chief is right: we are failing people with diabetes | Neil Barsky

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