Estimates show that in the next 25 years (by 2035) the number of people with diabetes will double and the cost of treating diabetes will triple.
This should clearly show that we have a problem. Action needs to be taken, and soon, to help relieve the care and the cost of Diabetes.
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/26/diabetes.projections/
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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This is an interesting perspective, but the results, unfortunately suggest a far different problem for policy-makers.
ReplyDelete#1) We cannot prevent our way out of an epidemic already underway, we're are a dollar short and day too late for that (those investments should have been made 25 years ago).
#2) Investments made today should be directed not towards efforts to improve glycemic control, but towards disease eradication -- meaning cure-related treatments. This is a profound change towards the current view which remains fixated on glycemic control in spite of poor clinical outcomes based on this model, but could yield significant payoff.
#3) Failure to do anything will cost even more. But incremental improvements in glycemic control has been the only outcome in spite of billions of dollars spent and decades of trying; the focus must shift profoundly away from the status quo (the way things have been done so far). Again, we have failed as a society to do anything to prevent the epidemic now underway focusing almost exclusively on trying to improve glycemic control, but we absolutely must change or our healthcare system will literally be bankrupt sooner rather than later.