Cost of Diabetes

There is an interesting list of facts and figures related to diabetes from the Associated Press, including this one:

“Total direct and indirect U.S. costs of diabetes are estimated at $218 billion a year.”

Amazing. When non-diabetics hear this figure, they automatically think this is the cost of the general public. But guess what? Figure into that cost what diabetics themselves have to pay for: syringes, insulin (often more than one kind), test strips, testers, and more. Diabetes is a hardship in many ways, and cost is just one.

Check out the rest of the figures here.