Diabetes is a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in the US and if it affects a person it will result in ruining the body and the persons health. In particular, it will lead to serious ailments such as causing blindness, failure of kidneys as well as premature death. In addition, the treatment and care of this disease costs the US more than all of its war expenditures and in fact this cost is estimated to be as high as over one hundred and fifty billion dollars per year.
This shows that caring for and treating diabetes will cost the United States more than what it currently spends on fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and also in the war against terrorism. As a matter of fact, the costs involved are greater than the 150 million dollars spent in taking care of the damage wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.
All of this is on account of the increasing incidences of the disease in America and in fact each year more than a million Americans are joining the ranks of other diabetics in the country. Not only is this disease a major problem but it is also leading to more and more people becoming obese as well as overweight.
To treat this condition would require huge resources and this in fact is draining the US economy, especially when it concerns costs of medical care and also to handle production losses which have gone up by as many as an estimated 32 percent from 2002 onwards.
This is a deadly illness that has resulted in more than 280,000 deaths in America and all this occurred in a single year. The costs of treating this disease is also more than what America spends on treating cancer which in turn cost the country about two hundred billion plus dollars in the year 2006.
The worrying thing about the costs of paying for this treatment is that even those who are not diabetics will have to contribute to the care of such a dreadful disease. Even normal care which you get at a doctors clinic and the cost of medications can cost a lot of money but the major part of the costs involved in combating the condition is paying for transplanting a ruined kidney as well as for dialysis.
Furthermore, more than fifty percent of the cost of treating this deadly disease goes toward paying for inpatient hospital treatment. In fact, diabetes is a disease that makes people very sick and this means that they will need to spend longer time in hospitals and that means higher costs have to be borne by the patients.
Even the future is not bright because it is expected that more and more Americans are going to become diabetic and there are already significant numbers of them who are in pre diabetic stage.
The future of America is also going to be badly affected by the disease because huge sums of money will have to be diverted to controlling this epidemic that could otherwise have been spent on education and development. In fact, in the next few decades, stats and the government may be crippled with having to spend a lot of money in controlling the diabetes epidemic that is going to overwhelm America.
This shows that caring for and treating diabetes will cost the United States more than what it currently spends on fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and also in the war against terrorism. As a matter of fact, the costs involved are greater than the 150 million dollars spent in taking care of the damage wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.
All of this is on account of the increasing incidences of the disease in America and in fact each year more than a million Americans are joining the ranks of other diabetics in the country. Not only is this disease a major problem but it is also leading to more and more people becoming obese as well as overweight.
To treat this condition would require huge resources and this in fact is draining the US economy, especially when it concerns costs of medical care and also to handle production losses which have gone up by as many as an estimated 32 percent from 2002 onwards.
This is a deadly illness that has resulted in more than 280,000 deaths in America and all this occurred in a single year. The costs of treating this disease is also more than what America spends on treating cancer which in turn cost the country about two hundred billion plus dollars in the year 2006.
The worrying thing about the costs of paying for this treatment is that even those who are not diabetics will have to contribute to the care of such a dreadful disease. Even normal care which you get at a doctors clinic and the cost of medications can cost a lot of money but the major part of the costs involved in combating the condition is paying for transplanting a ruined kidney as well as for dialysis.
Furthermore, more than fifty percent of the cost of treating this deadly disease goes toward paying for inpatient hospital treatment. In fact, diabetes is a disease that makes people very sick and this means that they will need to spend longer time in hospitals and that means higher costs have to be borne by the patients.
Even the future is not bright because it is expected that more and more Americans are going to become diabetic and there are already significant numbers of them who are in pre diabetic stage.
The future of America is also going to be badly affected by the disease because huge sums of money will have to be diverted to controlling this epidemic that could otherwise have been spent on education and development. In fact, in the next few decades, stats and the government may be crippled with having to spend a lot of money in controlling the diabetes epidemic that is going to overwhelm America.
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