A study in the current issue of Diabetes Care predicts that the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double over the next 25 years, and that the annual cost for their medical care will triple. These are sobering numbers in terms of both human misery and societal cost.
Certainly, this is no time to cripple our health care system with a government take-over, which will inevitably ration care and squash private sector innovation. What should be done is to free up Pharma and Biotech from excess regulation and tax burdens in order to maximize their ability to develop the interventions necessary to curtail the development of diabetes and its complications. We need more of what has given us the greatest health standard of living the world has ever known, not less. In addition, insurance companies, airline carriers, employers etc. should be allowed (encouraged) to give discounted premiums, fares and/or other incentives to their physically fit and healthy customers and employees, including those that maintain a healthy weight.
As it stands, an obesity and sedentary living protection cabal exists demanding that unhealthy behaviors be subsidized by society through universal health care without stipulations, and by threatening lawsuits against those who "discriminate" against fat and self-destructive individuals.
Get active. Watch your diet and weight. The only person that should pay the consequences for not doing so is you!
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